o eradicate the phenomenological experience and emphasize pure thought to the notion that it is only in accord with the human sensory experience that mankindÆs nature can fully be known.
FeuerbachÆs (1957, 1986) assertion and its import was part and parcel of his philosophical notions of God. Indeed, Feuerbach (1957) stated that the Christian notion that man is involved in a superordinate-subordinate relationship with a non-corporeal Spirit, namely God, is a self-alienating concept. According to Feuerbach, the truth is that it was man who created God and he did so through investing Him with essentially human attributes. However, in this Christian conceptualization of God, Feuerbach pointed out that the good attributes, the noble attributes, the values and beliefs that make man worthy and laudable were then associated with God while the negative attributes are associated with man and this is the process that is said to breed self-alienation.
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