Feuerbach is a famous atheist, but he is about as good on the joyful aspects of religion as anybody, and he loves the world. Of course he thinks religion could just stand out of the way and let joy exist pure and undisguised. That is his one error, and it is significant. But he is marvelous on the subject of joy, an also on its religious expressions.
Broughton takes a very dim view of him, because he unsettled the faith of so many people, but I take issue as much with those people as with Feuerbach. It seems to me people just go around looking to get their faith unsettled.
M. Robinson, Gilead (2004), 27
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