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“If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.”

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B.J. Palmer is a mysterious figure from the early 20th century, with his profession and category still unclear. He was born on September 14, 1882, and passed away on May 21, 1961. more

“Therefore, criticism has to direct itself against itself, and against the mysterious Substance in which it has up to now hid itself. In this way criticism must resolve things such that the development of this Substance drives itself forward to the Universality and Certainty of the Idea of its actual existence, the Eternal Self-consciousness.”

Way Ideas Self Existence Consciousness Development Eternal Direct Criticism Mysterious Certainty Substance Resolve Self Consciousness Universality

Author:Bruno Bauer

“We save the honor of Jesus when we restore His Person to life from the state of inanity to which the apologists have reduced it, and give it once more a living relation to history, which it certainly possessed.”

Giving Persons States Jesus Honor Relation Possessed

Author:Bruno Bauer

“After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.”

World Earth Order Situation This World Noble Destructive Urges Fulfilling Naive Things Change Intoxication Opium

Author:Bruno Bauer

“The pure Christian State is a State in which theological law prevails. This law attains to real power or, to be more exact, absolute power, when through its results which are identical with those of opium, it puts all parts of humanity to sleep. If some occasionally awake they carry out crimes that horrify humanity which has not yet become Christian in the full sense of the word or has already abandoned the Christian framework.”

Ifs Real States Christian Law Humanity Sleep Results Crime Pure Absolutes Awake Abandoned Framework Identical Theological Opium Real Power Absolute Power

Author:Bruno Bauer

“There is no longer any religion when there is no longer any privileged religion. Take from religion its exclusive power and it will no longer exist.”

Privileged Exclusive

Author:Bruno Bauer

“But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.”

Children Art Important Interest Christianity Etc Contrast Worldly Child Of God Art And Science Good Christian

Author:Bruno Bauer

“Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.”

Self Consciousness Christianity Progress Obstacles Alienation Self Consciousness Biggest Obstacles

Author:Bruno Bauer

“The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.”

Giving Spirit Religious Sweet Sight Devotion Ties Patriotism Fiery Enchantment Family Ties

Author:Bruno Bauer

“Reason is the true creative power, for it produces itself as Infinite Self-consciousness, and its ongoing creation is...world history. As the only power that exists, Spirit can therefore be determined by nothing other than itself, that is, its essence is Freedom...Freedom is the infinite power of Spirit...Freedom, the only End of Spirit, is also the only End of History, and history is nothing other than Spirit's becoming *conscious* of its Freedom, or the becoming of Real, Free, Infinite Self-consciousness.”

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