Friday, August 05, 2011

'Fear and Trembling'


Fear and trembling signifies that one is in process of becoming, and every individual man, and the race as well, is or should be conscious of being in process of becoming. And fear and trembling signifies that a God exits--a fact which no man and no established order dare for an instant forget. ...

So holy in fact had the Pharisees and the scribes become, and so holy do men always become when they deify the established order, that their divine worship is a way of making a fool of God. Under the pretense of serving and worshipping, they serve and worship their own device, either in self-complacent joy at being themselves the inventors, or through fear of men. -Søren Kierkegaard

How relevant for today! More and more, we are witnessing a spike in wild innovations and inventions, new ways of doing and defining things that were once considered sacred and inviolable.

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