The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.
Ludwig FeuerbachTheology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity.
Ludwig FeuerbachWhat yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is atheism, tomorrow will be religion.
Ludwig Feuerbach