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e., God). Marx and Engel saw it as something that is fantastical -- a fantastical reflection of the minds of men (Marx & Engel p 161).

Buddhadasa writes that the Buddha believed in the reality of a spiritual existence, yet he refused to interpret it as something -- a revelation -- beyond itself (p 146).

Feuerbach thought that religion saw the main difference between man and brute was the fact that brutes did not have any sort of religion (p 9). However, Feuerbach himself sees that the main difference between man and brute is consciousness -- "but consciousness in the strict sense in the perception and even judgment of outward things according to definite sensible signs, cannot be denied to brutes" (p 9). This is to say that man is able to talk with himself and the brute is not able to do this. Man is something, in a sense, which is outside of himself (herself). Man has speech and man has thought, but the brute does not have this. How this plays into religion is in that religion is something that Feuerbach calls "consciousness of the infinite" (p 10). This means that man is simply just a reflection of himself and thus he becomes some sort of object.

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He is no longer himself but rather an object.

Feuerbach states that religion is the "highest good" for man (p 10). Yet he asks how a man can possibly find consolation with God if they are not the same nature. and, indeed, man and God are not the same nature. If man and God were the same nature, they would be able to understand each other -- and moreover, man would be certain of God's existence. So if man and God are not at all the same, how are the two able to find that they may find peace with each other? If man and God are of two different natures, which they would have to be, how would….....

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