@DecaturNature Regarding standing outside Christianity and Communism, this is a theme you see repeated with Sartre, too, and for very much the same reasons...that both offer an ontology and a teleology, but that the act to submit to them must come from somewhere outside those things. Now that I think of it, this is a different viewpoint on "the problem of Grace" from within Christian theology (that is, if "grace" must save you from your corruption, your asking for grace was already corrupt)