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Originally published in 1845, this digest of thirty lectures by one of Germanys most influential humanist philosophers extends the critique expounded in "The Essence of Christianity (1841) to religion as a whole. The main thrust of Feuerbachs analysis of religion is aptly summed up in the original subtitle to this work: "God the Image of Man. Mans Dependence upon Nature the Last and Only Source of Religion." Feuerbach reviews key aspects of religious belief and in each case explains them as imaginative elaborations of the primal awe and sense of dependence that humans experience in the face of natures power and mystery. Rather than man being created in the image of God, the situation is quite the reverse: "All theology is anthropology," he says, and "the being whom man sets over against himself as a separate supernatural existence is his own being." Feuerbach goes on to argue that the attributes of God are no more than reflections of the various needs
