Part of the rebelling of Sartre against bourgeois relationships and his embrace of a reactionary approach stems from the upholding of a fake morality lived by the civil people of his day. Their embrace of a "sin while nobody is looking but be moral in public" worldview, took him to rebel against the present structure and live a life of protest. His free and unorthodox way of living would in a way combat the hypocrisy of a pseudo morality. In a sense, through a lack of structure Sartre sought to provide a constant in which people could be free to be their own person, through the negation of adherence to societal principles. Through way of combating the "system" if-you-will, Sartre didn't abolish a sense of system but created his own.
What then would Sartre think about the lived reality of Christians today? And how does his radical approach to bourgeois morality mirror those who seek to be independent the church or "religion" but end up in their own version of a system which provides them as much consistency and honesty as the prior one lacked to give?
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