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Kant's Critique of Judgement

Note 137 — PART II CRITIQUE OF THE TELEOLOGICAL JUDGEMENT (continued 3)

J. H. (John Henry) Bernard translation

In a practical sense that religion is always idolatry which conceives the Supreme Being with properties, according to which something else besides morality can be a fit condition for that which man can do being in accordance with His Will. For however pure and free from sensible images the concept that we have formed may be in a theoretical point of view, yet it will be in a practical point of view still represented as an idol, i.e. in regard to the character of His Will, anthropomorphically.

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