[T]hese days illusion only is scared, truth profane.....

“ [T]hese days illusion only is scared, truth profane. … [S]acredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to highest degree of sacredness. Religion has disappeared, … for it has been substituted … the appearance of religion[.] ”

Ludwig Feuerbach

From : The Essence of Christianity