And yet, that primitive religions are based entirely on fear and the religions of civilized peoples purely on morality is a prejudice against which we must be on our guard.
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For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him.
Now I am a diviner, though not a very good one, but I have enough religion for my own use, as you might say of a bad writer — his writing is good enough for him.
Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science?
The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples’ lives.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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.”
Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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.
Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
