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God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in The Essence of Christianity, made God in his image.
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Lecture XX, see Lectures on the Essence of Religion. Transl. Ralph Manheim. New York: Harper & Row. 1967. p. 187.  German: Vorlesungen über das Wesen der Religion. Leipzig: Wigand. 1851. p. 241. 

 

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