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Summary: Feuerbach's atheism has only one idea: to denounce illusions and contradictions in order to clean up religion and particularly Christianity. He becomes the prophet of a new humanism in which man no longer looks for a guarantee in a divinity but becomes the worker of his own destiny realized in the struggle with nature. However, according to Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, the idea of human progress rhymes with its repression, its dehumanization insofar as "the blind development of technology reinforces oppression and social exploitation, threatening at every stage to transform progress into its opposite". Therefore, wouldn't God be the one who could get man out of his existential suffering?
