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Just started reading Kierkegaard, as an atheist, how am I supposed to interpret a leap of faith?

I am an atheist and I'm trying to get something from Kierkegaard's christian perspective of existence. Is a leap of faith just about leaving rationality behind? Is it about stop looking for meaning of life in objectivity?
gpt
I think that the best way to explain it is that SK thinks that rationality has an end, in some sense. We will live rational lives and at some point, that will leave us wanting. Reason will fail to provide answers for all the questions that we seek, and reason will leave us to conclude that life is meaningless, empty, and without any value. Reason brings us to despair. At this point, we might look to something else to improve our lives, to give us hope. That thing is faith. However, faith does not make sense from the standpoint of reason, and reason is all that we know. So, in order to even try faith, we have to abandon reason, even if just temporarily. SK doesn't think it's a complete abandon, though. Once we've tried faith, we see how reason fits into the picture, we have a kind of hindsight. However, from the standpoint of reason, faith is nonsense, so we somewhat have to abandon reason in order to gain faith, yet when we do so, we also regain reason.