“Faith sees best in the dark”: Joe Biden, Søren Kierkegaard, and the education of suffering – ABC Religion & Ethics February 15, 2021 by Fulcrum US President Joe Biden has frequently acknowledged that only his faith has enabled him to endure theuntimely death of his son Beau. In September 2016, nearing the end of his term as Barack Obama’s Vice-President, Biden revealed that his wife Jill had taped to his mirror an expression from the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard: “Faith sees best in the dark.” Gordon Marino. ABC Relgion & Ethics. 10 February 2021 FulcrumShareTweetShare