THE CHRISTIANITY AVERSION TO NATURE ACCORDING TO FEUERBACH

Abstract

Feuerbach clearly states that Christian theology relates negatively in face of nature.  Religious disregard or devaluation of nature lead to consequences for the judgement of human nature by theology, for the latter condemns also the natural-sensitive dimension of man’s nature, and, in the face of it, glorifies the spirit. Due to the very fact that nature gives expression to objectivity, necessity, corporality, sensibility, it is the negative, so to speak, a proof for the limits of interiority, religious feelings, that is, a true barricade against illusion of a supernatural existence.  From this Christian view point it should, therefore, be cleared, denied.  Feuerback argues that God (the almighty, the sublime essence) that was created by religious folly is only a gostly representation by humankind, a subjective konstruktion by man, lacking all nature’s frontiers and restrictions, and the Christian religion assisting man as a tool by means of which he tries do get rid of nature.