1843: this is not religion that makes the man ... 
Ce n'est pas la religion qui fait l'homme, mais l'homme qui fait la religion.
L'homme qui n'aura trouvé, dans la réalité fantasmagorique du ciel, où il cherchait un surhomme, que le reflet de lui - même, longer tilt to find only the looks of it - well, that non-man, where he seeks and must seek his true reality necessarily.
The foundation of irreligious criticism is: man makes religion, it is not religion that makes man. Cer-
your religion is self-awareness and sense of self has the man who has not yet found himself or has already lost again. But man, this is not an abstract being tucked somewhere out of the world. Man is the world of man, the state, society. This state, this society troubled mankind religion inverted world consciousness, because they are themselves a world upside down.
Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic, its logic in popular form, its spiritualistic point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, its universal consolation and justification.
It is fantastic achieve-ment of human beings, because humans do not have a true reality.
fight against religion is therefore indirectly fight against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
Karl Marx, Critique of Philosophy of Law Hegel
