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“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.”

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Bruno Bauer was a German philosopher born on September 6, 1809, and died on April 13, 1882. He was an important figure in 19th-century German philosophy, known for his critical thinking on religious, historical, and philosophical issues. more

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