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29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / a. Religious Belief

5299	Religious feeling is social in origin [Marx]
	Full Idea: The "religious sentiment" (discussed by Feuerbach) is itself a social product.
	From: Karl Marx (Theses on Feuerbach [1846], §VII)
	A reaction: Recent brain research has identified a part of the brain which is only active during religious thought and experience. It is easy to produce cynical political accounts of religion, but in its time it was also quite a good scientific account of nature.