Phillips Vs. Feuerbach

Feuerbach, in his assertion that humanity creates god as a projection of our own attributes, rings truer to me than Phillips’ criticism of it. Reification was a big word in our discussions in class and more than the other philosophers we covered I think Feuerbach was really onto something here. It echoes the material we covered about totemism, and I feel that though this approach to explaining religious thought has its weaknesses, there is something irresistible about it to me. Looking at the concepts of god, from the ancients to modern day, it is evident to me that man is reaching for descriptions of god through reification of what we see as important in ourselves.
This is also one of the spots in Phillips’ book where I found myself lost in his word and missing his points. His arguments for Feuerbach are wordy and cerebral to the point that I begin to shut down on considering his opinions. I do agree with him on the point that Feuerbach’s theories are incomplete, but then again, so are Phillips’. He spends so much energy on deconstructing the philosophers who offer an original and forward moving theory that he doesn’t do much in the way of positing his own. C’mon Phillips, your killing me!