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Discovering the Truth within falsehood

Colin M. Harper on the non-reductive atheism of Ludwig Feuerbach.

Apart from some earlier attempts, it has been reserved in the main for our epoch to vindicate at least in theory the human ownership of the treasures squandered on heaven; but what age will have the strength to validate this right in practice and make itself its possessor?
G.W.F. Hegel (1800)

Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872) started out as a student of theology but went on to articulate one of the most interesting critiques of religion we have. In his major work The Essence of Christianity (1841) he sought to uncover the hidden essence of religion as revealed in what he regarded as its most highly evolved expression, namely, Christianity.

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