Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.
the Future Of An Illusionby sigmund Freud
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.
Religious doctrines, are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.”
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Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
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