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How hard would it be to apply Kierkegaard's "Leap of Faith" to something other than a Christian God?

Just curious... I'm not super-well-versed in Kierkegaard but I'm wondering if his whole Christian Existentialism schtick could be successfully transplanted onto other faith systems. thinking specifically in a context of a local political leader worshipped as divinity, laying a foundation for a hypothetical post-capitalist pagan theocratic system, but any other thoughts/angles help! have any writers outside of Christianity applied Kierkegaard's "Leap of Faith" to non-Christian subjects?
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Interestingly enough, Albert Camus, in his Myth of Sysiphus, likens the Kierkegaardian leap of faith to the existentialists leap for meaning. Another approach could be to consider the question from Weber's essay Science as a Vocation; in the essay, he likens the modern world as a pantheism where idols fight for your alliegance. In his view, there is an irreconcilable split between fact and value—so it is a question of choosing your poison (or opium, or sacrament) in terms of value. Going back to Camus, his absurdist thought centers around the idea of keeping the absurd—the relation between man's search for unity and a silent universe—lucid and always in sight, in a sense rejecting any sort of leap.