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'Discuss the claim that Christianity should be a significant…

- - - - '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.'
    - - argued that religion is illusion; 'perhaps the most important item in the psychical inventory of a civilization'
  - - - 'if God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him' Voltaire
  - - - Might be true peoples' ideas about God change over time and fulfil their wishes - but doesn't stop God existing despite and separately from people's ideas about him
    - - No way to support claim of Religion being a neuroses for all people - people have different religious beliefs, formed in different ways
- - - - Encourages peaceful religious pluralism
      - Promotes tolerant multiculturalism
      - Allows laws to be passed that don't always sit sympathetically with religious ideas
    - - Secularism could leave religious ideas unchecked -> could become more radical
      - Countries can become paralysed by pluralism
      - Pluralism leads to relativism which removes objective content from areas such as morality