“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”

Source: Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

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Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813–1855

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