The Crowd is Untruth: One theme in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard is his claim that “the crowd is untruth.” At first reading, it sounds harsh, even exaggerated. Surely the problem lies with bad crowds, not crowds as such. But Kierkegaard presses the point relentlessly, and in doing so, he forces us to look again at the Passion of our Lord. Kierkegaard reminds us that it was not a single individual who mocked Jesus, spat upon Him, and crucified Him — it was the crowd.