I want to know the answer to the following question:
What did the author of "The Essence of Christianity" consider religion to be?
All the background I'm provided with is that "The German materialist and atheist anthropologist Ludwig Feuerbach would signal a new turn in materialism through his book, The Essence of Christianity (1841), which provided a humanist account of religion as the outward projection of man's inward nature.". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: yes