Feuerbach Religious Outlook

Humanism is overall tendency of the Feuerbach's philosophy on which Feuerbach started to think the question about religious essence. He thought that God was man's essence alienation. Human being disassimilated their essence into an independent spiritual entity which was the God. The God which created by the person was in the opposite status to man and becomes to fetter man and limit man.Marx and Engels both inherited Feuerbach's religious alienation view and developed it. Marx and Engels approved Feuerbach's viewpoint which was that man created the god instead of the god creating man, but Marx and Engels made the different explanation on religious essence based on historical materialism from Feuerbach's. Marx and Engels pointed out that Feuerbach only discovered the root, dependence feeling, from which the religion grew on from the epistemology angle, but had not realized the social root, country and society's alienation, of religion. There is a big difference on the explanation of man's essence between Marx and Feuerbach: Feuerbach regarded man as the abstract natural existence of its kind, but Marx and Engels thought man's essence was a sum total which concluded all its social relations.On religion's social function, Feuerbach's humanism critique of religion heavily attacked feudal monarches' despotic rule and promoted people's ideological liberation. But, although Feuerbach opposed religion theology, he certainly did not oppose religion itself and he advocated to construct "the religion of love" to realize the human nature regression. Marx criticized the unthoroughness of Feuerbach's critique sharply, through which he made a thorough denial to religion and pointed out that religion would step to wither away inevitably. But meanwhile Marx and Engels emphasized that in the certain historical stage the freedom of religious belief had positive sense to the historical development and to human itself.