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Is Camus criticizing Kierkegaard in “The Myth of Sissiphys”

I am currently reading The Myth of Sissiphys and am currently at his chapter p“Philosophical Suicide”. I can’t really understand if Camus is being critical towards Kierkegaard’s views on Christianity or rather giving examples on how Religion is giving meaning to his life. Also can someone sum this chapter up? It really is a little bit messy.
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I won't say that Camus was necessarily "criticizing" Kierkegaard. Camus himself states that he does not aim to analyze and debate the philosophies of Kierkegaard and the others he discusses in the chapter. Despite him referring to such ideas as "philosophical suicide", Camus didn't mean to pass judgement upon these ideas either.

Instead, Camus was simply looking at how some have tried to confront the absurd by taking some sort of leap (the "philosophical suicide"), and then gives some reasoning as to why the "absurd man" might find these conclusions unsatisfactory. As for why the "absurd man" was said to find Kierkegaard's conclusion unsatisfactory, Camus states that Kierkegaard completely rejects reason in favor of god, thus erroneously trying to negate one part of the equation of the absurd. And although Camus admits the limits of reason, he does not see why it should be totally discarded.

And this is essentially how the entire chapter goes. Camus first lays out and affirms his concept of the absurd, the contradiction between the human need for answers and the universe's lack of answers. Then, he sees how some (Kierkegaard, Chestov, Husserl, Jaspers) have tried to reconcile this, typically through rejecting an aspect of the absurd, before giving the "absurd man's" reasoning as to why such conclusions are unsatisfactory.