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To: one_less who wrote (7040)	11/17/2003 10:48:24 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 7720

I took some time off to be with the wife, after a business trip..... Kierkegaard laid out the problem very well, which is that we stand in a certain relationship to the idea of improvement of society or of the species, but another to the idea of our own eternal happiness. The law may be generated for the common good, and may entail the sacrifice of individuals, but we cannot be wholly indifferent to our own fate, and the chance of happiness. Even if we were to turn away from the question of our own destiny, how do we turn away from concern for those whom we love? Do we care for our children merely to achieve monumental civilization, or to increase the stature of the breed? Do we invest so much only to be helpless in the face of disease, accident, death? For Kierkegaard, the "leap of faith" was not required to believe in an Eternal source of being, that he took for granted as logical. The leap of faith was required to believe that God cares for His creation, that the fate of the individual mattered, not just the group, that "in God, all things are possible". The "leap of faith" is required because we get mixed signs on earth, so much discouragement, so much suffering. The individual seems far less important than the march of history, or of "homo sapiens". The leap of faith is an affirmation that the Lord cares for each of us, and that our destinies, each and every one, matter...........