the Danish 19th century Protestant philosopher. And he's probably most famous for something he said, truth is subjectivity. Now, when I first heard that, I thought he's saying that there is no such thing as truth, that, you know, we all have our own views. That's not what he meant by it. What he meant by the kind of truths for which we live and we die are truths that can only be known by the heart, by the perceiving subject. I forget the phrase he used, he was a difficult writer. It's like passionately appropriating a truth claim inwardly. That's how you know what's true. And that made sense to me. And I thought, you know, I keep trying to find the right argument that's going to convince me to be a Christian. But Kierkegaard's saying there is no argument. The argument is living. And you're not going to be able necessarily to demonstrate this with logical propositions. And, you know, in fact, you know, premise, premise, premise, conclusion. But you can still know it. I ended up becoming (24/57)
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