human
on which the freer look down with contempt. For it (like civism, its native ground, in general) is still too little removed and free from the religious heaven not to transplant the latter's laws without criticism or further consideration to its domain instead of producing independent doctrines of its own. Morality cuts a quite different figure when it arrives at the consciousness of its dignity, and raises its principle, the essence of man, or
gpt
Man, to be the only regulative power. Those who have worked their way through to such a decided consciousness break entirely with religion, whose God no longer finds any place alongside their
human
Man, and, as they (see below) themselves scuttle the ship of State, so too they crumble away that
gpt
which flourishes only in the State, and logically have no right to use even its name any further. For what this
human
party calls morality is very positively distinguished from the so-called
gpt
and must appear to the citizen like an
human
But at bottom it has only the advantage of the
gpt
which, freed from its defilement with the religious, has now reached universal power in its clarified definiteness as
human
Therefore one should not wonder that the name
gpt
is retained along with others, like freedom, benevolence, self-consciousness, etc., and is only garnished now and then with the addition, a
human
morality,--just as, though the civic State is abused, yet the State is to arise again as a
gpt
or, if not even so, yet as a
human
If, on the other hand, it comes to the point that
gpt
then that distinction vanishes, and morality, being removed from its subordinate position, is completed into--religion. For then the higher being who had hitherto been subordinated to the highest, Man, has ascended to absolute height, and we are related to him as one is related to the highest being, _i. e._ religiously. Morality and piety are now as synonymous as in the beginning of Christianity, and it is only because the supreme being has come to be a different one that a holy walk is no longer called a
human
one, but a
gpt
The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. _Homo homini Deus est_--this is the supreme practical maxim, this the turning point of the world's history. [37] But, properly speaking, only the god is changed,--the _deus_; love has remained: there love to the superhuman God, here love to the human God, to _homo_ as _Deus_. Therefore man is to me--sacred. And everything
human
is to me--sacred!
gpt
Marriage is sacred of itself. And so it is with all moral relations. Friendship is and must be _sacred_ for you, and property, and marriage, and the good of every man, but sacred _in and of itself_. [38] Haven't we the priest again there? Who is his God? Man with a great M! What is the divine? The human! Then the predicate has indeed only been changed into the subject, and, instead of the sentence
human
God is love, they say
gpt
; instead of
human
God has become man,
gpt
Man has become God, etc. It is nothing more or less than a new--_religion_.
human
All moral relations are ethical, are cultivated with a moral mind, only where of themselves (without religious consecration by the priest's blessing) they are counted _religious_. Feuerbach's proposition,
gpt
Theology is anthropology, means only
human
Love is not (and has never been considered by men) sacred through being a predicate of God, but it is a predicate of God because it is divine in and of itself, he might judge that the fight against the predicates themselves, against love and all sanctities, must be commenced. How could he hope to turn men away from God when he left them the divine? And if, as Feuerbach says, God himself has never been the main thing to them, but only his predicates, then he might have gone on leaving them the tinsel longer yet, since the doll, the real kernel, was left at any rate. He recognizes, too, that with him it is
gpt
;[39] he thinks, however, that the effect of the illusion on men is