LXXXIX.

"Now this is another Young Hegelian, Ludwig Feuerbach, who had another very important impact on Marx. Feuerbach called his approach "naturalism. " ...And naturalism really meant that you do not underestimate the importance of consciousness in spirit, just in the interaction with consciousness and spirit, and the nature itself, — you pay more attention to nature.

Now Feuerbach's most important book —  Das Wesen des Christentums, The Essence of Christianity, he also suggested that rather than God creating man, man created the idea of God, and they created the idea of God — this is actually not all that far from Bruno Bauer, just a more radical position. Because it wanted to project the desperation of alienation into the idea of God. So, I mean, while so to say Bauer was not ready to draw the, if I may use this term, the ontological conclusions of his criticism of Hegel. Feuerbach went into ontology. Ontology means the origins of things, and he believed that in fact the spiritual world is a reflection of humans as such. That's why he called this naturalism, as distinct from idealism.
...Feuerbach made this provocative statement that we invented God, rather than God creating us."

© Iván Szelényi
Yale Lectures on Foundations of Modern Social Thought
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