Philosophy — the power of separate thought and the thought of separate power — was never by itself able to supersede theology. The spectacle is the material reconstruction of the religious illusion. Spectacular technology has not dispersed the religious mists into which human beings had projected their own alienated powers, it has merely brought those mists down to earth, to the point that even the most mundane aspects of life have become impenetrable and unbreathable. The illusory paradise that represented a total denial of earthly life is no longer projected into the heavens, it is embedded in earthly life itself. The spectacle is the technological version of the exiling of human powers into a “world beyond”; the culmination of humanity’s internal separation.
I agree with DeBorges in the sense that religion is indeed a spectacle created over centuries of events that may or may have not occured. I also do agree with him in that this spectacle does indeed seperate us. Although, proving that religion is an illusion itself can be hard to prove when there are such a wide range of religions and what they follow or believe.
