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To the ancients the world was a truth, says Feuerbach, but he forgets to make the important addition,
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What is meant by those words of Feuerbach will be easily recognized if they are put alongside the Christian thesis of the
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For, as the Christian can never convince himself of the vanity of the divine word, but believes in its eternal and unshakeable truth, which, the more its depths are searched, must all the more brilliantly come to light and triumph, so the ancients on their side lived in the feeling that the world and mundane relations (_e. g_. the natural ties of blood) were the truth before which their powerless
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I must bow. The very thing on which the ancients set the highest value is spurned by Christians as the valueless, and what they recognized as truth these brand as idle lies; the high significance of the fatherland disappears, and the Christian must regard himself as
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;[8] the sanctity of funeral rites, from which sprang a work of art like the Antigone of Sophocles, is designated as a paltry thing (
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Let the dead bury their dead
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Jerusalem that is above,