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Feuerbach's Philosophy of Religion - Coggle Diagram
Feuerbach's Philosophy of Religion
the White Christ
Born from the soil of white supremacy
White Americans have been the cultural and political majority.
In the course of American history, Jesus has been a white slave owner, a civil rights icon, a Native American elder, and a queer activist. Jesus, the malleable totem, often becomes a canvas which we project our desires
From Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” to Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” in the Sistine Chapel, Jesus is all depicted as a white man. Sallman’s "Head of Christ" culminates a long tradition of white Europeans creating and disseminating pictures of Christ made in their own image.
Religious images are often a window into secular desires for power and authority
Projection is powerful. It sets a baseline for what is considered standard
It is especially powerful when crafted by those with political, economic, and cultural authority and privilege
The Modern-Day Ubiquity of the White Christ originates in Post Civil-War White Southern Theology
Projection is powerful. It sets a baseline for what is considered standard
It is especially powerful when crafted by those with political, economic, and cultural authority and privilege
A site for scholars of religion to investigate and analyze the intersection of religious practice, political context, cultural influences and other components of group identity
In the Renaissance, European artists began to combine the icon and the portrait, making Christ in their own likeness.
This phenomenon was not restricted to Europe: There are 16th- and 17th-century pictures of Jesus with, for example, Ethiopian and Indian features.
In colonial Latin America – called “New Spain” by European colonists – images of a white Jesus reinforced a caste system where white, Christian Europeans occupied the top tier, while those with darker skin from perceived intermixing with native populations ranked considerably lower.
anthropomorphism
Religion is the childlike condition of humanity, but the child sees his nature-man.
Man has given object as his own nature. A later religion is therefore a deeper self-knowledge
projection
Religion is a projection of human desire. People create god to conquer their fear and desire.
Like how we imagine ourselves as super heros. We imagin god as a perfect version of ourselves.
"Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality."
alinenation
"We are denying our own nature and thus alienating ourselves from what is truly human"
Beliving in god sets us apart form what we truly are