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Unless I'm mistaken, however, this is very close indeed to what Wittgenstein is getting at when he says, "Christianity is not grounded in a historical truth, but rather gives us a (historical) report and says: now believe! But not, believe this report with the faith proper to a historical report, -- but —but rather: believe through thick and thin, and this you can do only as the result of a life. Here you have a report, -- but —but don 't relate to it as you would to any other historical report! Let it have an utterly different place in your life. -- There —There is nothing paradoxical in this!"

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