"Not irreligion, not unbelief in the dogmas of the religious communities into which people happen to be born, no! lack of love and ignorance are the two main sources of all earthly calamities."
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Academics from GermanyGerman atheistsCritics of religionPhilosophers from GermanyAnthropologists from Germany
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Feuerbach, F., Gedanken und Tatsachen. Ein Beitrag zur Verständigung über die wichtigsten Bedingungen des Menschenwohles. Hamburg, 1862, p. 12.
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Friedrich Feuerbach
Friedrich Heinrich Feuerbach (29 September 1806 – 24 January 1880) was a German philologist and philosopher. In the 1840s, he played an important role disseminating materialist and atheist philosophy.
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