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Ludwig Feuerbach,The Essence of Christianity, tr. by George Eliot (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1957), p. xxxix: “Hence I do nothing more to religion_— and to speculative philosophy and theology also_— than to open its eyes, or rather to turn its gaze from the internal towards the external, i.e., I change the object as it is in the imagination into the object as it is in reality.”
Marcel Neusch,The Sources of Modern Atheism, tr. by Matthew J. O'Connell (New York: Paulist Press, 1982), pp. 49–50.
William Luijpen and Henry Koren,Religion and Atheism (Pittsburgh, Pa.: Duquesne University Press, 1971).
Ibid.,. p. 12. “Now, it is not impossible— we should even say, it is very probable_— that those who affirm God often do so in a way that cannot stand close scrutiny. Their idea of God is, at least partly, a deification of nature, of man or man_— made institutions. In other words, their affirmation of God is the affirmation of an idol, a pseudo-god. In such a case, atheism, as the negation of such a god, is justified.”
Freud's views on religion can be found inThe Future of an Illusions, tr. by James Strachey (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1961),Totem and Taboo, tr. James Strachey (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1950), andMoses and Monotheism tr. Katherine Jones (New York: Vintage Books, 1939). Both Neusch,op. cit.,The Sources of Modern Atheism, tr. by Matthew J. O'Connell (New York: Paulist Press, 1982), pp.89–109 and Luijpen and Koren,op. cit., William Luijpen and Henry Koren,Religion and Atheism (Pittsburgh, Pa.: Duquesne University Press, 1971). pp.37–49 have clear summaries of Freud's views.
“Existentialism Is a Humanism”, inExistentialism from Dostoevsky to Satre, edited by Walter Kaufman (New York: Meridian Books, 1956), p.290.
The Words, tr. by Bernard Frechtman (New York: A Fawcett Crest Book, 1964) pp.64–65;Being and Nothingness, tr. by Hazel E. Barnes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1956), p.290.
Being and Nothingness, op. cit., tr. by Hazel E. Barnes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1956), pp.88–90.
Neuschop. cit.,, pp. 181–212. Neusch's treatment of Bloch's philosophy is quite good.
Neuschop. cit.,, pp. 198–199.
Ibid..
W. Norris Clarke, “Analytic Philosophy About God” inChristian Philosophy and Religous Renewal. Edited by G. McLean (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 1966), pp. 307–344. Clarke's discussion of the problem of proofs for the existence of God is especially illuminating.
Ibid.,, p. 334.
Hought, p.4.
Ibid., Haught, p.4.
Rudolf Otto,The Idea of the Holy, tr. by John W. Harvey (New York: Oxford University Press, 1923), pp. 12–40.
Haught,op. cit., p.31.
Ibid., Haught, p.55.
Ibid., Haught, pp.92–114.
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Lauder, R.E. The accuracy of atheism and the truth of atheism. SOPH 28, 40–48 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02782663
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