Anti-Climacus

LINK: Leave it to David to get mad when someone agrees with his position.

""If it were true - as conceited shrewdness, proud of not being deceived, thinks - that one should believe nothing which he cannot see by means of his physical eyes, then first and foremost one ought to give up believing in love."*

Every good scientist knows how dumb this is. Have you ever seen an atom with your eyes? Of course not, but they are still there!"

The operative part of that sentence (is operative too big a word for you? let me know. I could probably find a smaller one you'd understand) is the clause in between the dashes, where he's clearly expressing that the view the sentence talks about is one he personally rejects (excepting the clause after the final comma, where K offers an instance of what he considers to be an exception to the trust-only-your-eyes rule). So Kierkegaard, like David, thinks that people who believe only what they see with their eyes are wrong. Let's do a little syllogism, then:

1: (via David) Kierkegaard was a complete idiot!
2: David agrees with Kierkegaard on the point in question.
Conclusion: David must also be a complete idiot.

Way to go there, David!

*Also, as they teach you in liberal arts classes (and in debate, too, so you don't have any excuse for not knowing this), it's important to give sources and contexts for quotes, otherwise you lose valuable parts of meaning. K wrote under many different psuedonyms that advanced different arguments, and each argument can only be placed within the larger framework by knowing whether he's writing it as Hilarius Bookbinder, Constantin Constantinius, or Johannes Climacus.

Further, just because it's attributed to someone doesn't mean they actually said it. To wit:

"All that is sold melts into the air" -Kierkegaard
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made" -Kierkegaard
"We can't try to understand the New York Times' effect on man" -Kierkegaard

None of these were actually said by Kierkegaard (they are Marx, Immanuel Kant, and the BeeGees, respectively), which you would know if context were provided.