1. Future of an Illusion
Freud, an aggressive atheist, argues that religion is an idea that we humans have developed as a way of dealing with the powers of nature that can harm us greatly. ... The rebellions are usually about people not being able to deal with certain measures of coercion, which raises the question of how far the prohibition of certain things can take a person. ... And this is how a religion, born from a man's need to make his helplessness tolerable and built on the feelings of helplessness from childhood. ... Their answers for grounds on their claims are: believe it because your ancestors did,...
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