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The Essence of Christianity

Ludwig Feuerbach·1841·German

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Argues that theology is really anthropology in disguise: the qualities believers attribute to God are humanity's own best qualities, projected outward and worshipped as though they belonged to someone else.

The historical progress of religions consists... in this: that what by an earlier religion was regarded as objective, is now recognised as subjective... God was a corporeal being, now he is a spiritual being. God was a man, now he is a pure idea.

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