Heres another excerpt from the same book i liked:
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Existentialism is nothing else than an attempt to draw all the consequences of a coherent atheistic position. It isnt trying to plunge man into despair at all. But if one calls every attitude of unbelief despair - like the Christians - then the word is not being used in its original sense. Existentialism isnt so atheistic that is wears itself out showing that God doesnt exist. Rather it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing. There youve got our point of view. Not that we believe God exists but we think that the problem of His existence is not the issue. In this sense Existentialism is optimistic, a doctrine of action and it is plain honesty for Christians to make no distinction between their own despair and ours and then to call us despairing
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