1. How would the distinction between religion as an illusion and religion as a delusion offer a response to the Modern Philosophical critiques of religion?

2. What is the difference between Religion in Postmodernity and Postmodern Religion?

3. How can Religion in Postmodernity be considered syncretistic?

4. What is the interrelationship of these three terms?

creed

code

cult

5. Name one similarity and one difference in the approach to religion by Friedrich Nietzsche and Soren Kierkegaard.

we discussed the Modern Philosophical critiques of religion of the following philosophers:

Ludwig Feuerbach

Karl Marx

Sigmund Freud

Friedrich Nietzsche

Read the following descriptions and identify the particular philosopher who is its source. (Questions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

4. A no to God is a yes to humanity.

5. Religion is a projection. The criticism of religion includes not only the internal dimensions of humanity but also the economic and social conditioning.The criticism of theology is transformed into a criticism of politics.

6. Religion is the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity which may be left behind when at last people learn to face the world, relying no longer upon illusions but upon scientifically authenticated knowledge.

7. Through this critique faith in reason and thus in modernity is shattered. There is no real truth, only different perspectives.

8. God is dead.