Strauss proposed that they consisted of "myth" (religious language
that conveys sacred truth)
Ludwig Feuerbach
"theology is anthropology"
many college freshman can say, "God is just a projection of the human
imagination." (a function of low-level thinking? or pervasiveness of
Feuerbach's position)
Søren Kierkegaard
writing in pseudonyms to make the point that we always only know from
a certain perspective
"We understand backwards, but we must live forwards."
Development of Religious Person for S. Kierkegaard