Religious alienation is a term some use to describe how religion creates an impediment to human self-understanding.
Read more about Religious Alienation: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Bruno Bauer, Ludwig Feuerbach
Famous quotes containing the words religious and/or alienation:
“Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)