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)
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