Those who die for their ideas are happy after all. Jesus was willing to endure all suffering with a zeal for truth and a renewed faith in all things. As Sartre said: People create their own essence by free choice. The disciples who betrayed Jesus, in their early years of following Jesus, promised Jesus that they would follow him forever, and I think they were sincere and heartfelt in that moment. But in the face of suffering, Judas and other disciples still betrayed him. Perhaps the human heart is really unpredictable, and the freedom to take responsibility and be willing to endure pain is a necessary condition for great men. On the other hand, I think, religion is active in the original stage. As Paul Tillich said: Religion is the ultimate concern. The love of the enemy, the firmness of the truth, and the persistence of suffering... This is the positive meaning of religion. As for spiritual opium, that is another story. Any doctrine that becomes an official value system will inevitably face the tendency of secularization. So Kierkegaard longed to return to the holiness of the original religion. Of course, the fact that Nietzsche's God is dead is a more deafening cry. Abandoning religion has become a conscious or unconscious choice for more people.
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