So basically what I got from this is that Kierkegaard is saying that if you are a Christian your greatest fear is not death but the journey there. I would generally have to agree with this basic assumption as one of my primal fears in not of dying but of burning on the way there or drowning or some other medieval form of cruel torture. KG even brings this up on page 48 when he says, "When the danger is so great that death has become the hope, then despair is the hopelessness of not even being able to die." This text is really fascinating, although it is slow and dreary at times when KG keeps repeating himself for a full page. . .
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I like the quote you used! That really interested me as well. His concept really gave me a different perspective. I also agree with his long elaborations. It was hard for me to keep my focus sometimes, but I liked the point he was getting to.
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