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What HE refers to in option B? We can't mix different pronouns - ONE and HE.

I think HE is trying to refer to Soren Kierkegaard but isn't HE too far away to refer to Soren Kierkegaard?
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This doesn't seem like a very good question. I don't know how is B the correct answer when the actual statement says that "the reason...is..." and the option B says "one SHOULD...."
Where did the compulsion to hold a religious belief come from? According to the question, they're just analyzing a possible reason why people believe in religion.
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rekhabishop, to begin with, remember that the task on SC is to find an answer that works. B has as much claim as any other answer to be the "actual" or correct one, so we can't ask where a concept in one answer came from unless it makes no sense on its own or clearly contradicts the intended meaning we glean from looking at all five choices. In any case, A isn't talking about why people are religious, either. "The reason to hold religious beliefs" means "the reason that one should hold religious beliefs."
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willigetmylifeback, there is no limit on how far the pronoun can be from the noun as long as the meaning is clear. "One" is a stand-in for any person, whereas "he" can only refer to Kierkegaard, so there's no trouble.
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rekhabishop, to begin with, remember that the task on SC is to find an answer that works. B has as much claim as any other answer to be the "actual" or correct one, so we can't ask where a concept in one answer came from unless it makes no sense on its own or clearly contradicts the intended meaning we glean from looking at all five choices. In any case, A isn't talking about why people are religious, either. "The reason to hold religious beliefs" means "the reason that one should hold religious beliefs."

Makes sense. But, I attempted a question, yesterday, where a more (grammatically) viable answer was striked out, simply because it used stronger words, just as this option with "should" does.
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We can't ever get rid of an answer for using strong language. There has to be a clear issue of grammar or meaning. Do you have a link to the question &/or explanation?
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do you think this is a gmat question? I cannot find any source for this question, so I highly doubt that the question is a good one to practice.
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I stuck between B and D but selected B eventually because i found "the definite knowledge of certainty" in D is kind of redundancy. someóne please elaborate !!

B. one should hold religious beliefs not because their truth is immediately evident, but because, in the absence of certainty, one must make what he called a 'leap of faith'


D. one's religious belief is necessary not because the truth is immediately evident, but because in the absence of the definite knowledge of certainty, one must make what he called a 'leap of faith'
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