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Quotes from Summary of Freud's view found in Karen Armstrong's 'A History of God — Sigmund Freud

1856–1939 Austria

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The idea of a God was not a lie but a device of the unconscious which needed to be decoded by psychology. A personal god was nothing more than an exalted father-figure: desire for such a deity sprang from infantile yearnings for a powerful, protective father, for justice and fairness and for life to go on forever. God is simply a projection of these desires, feared and worshiped by human beings out of an abiding sense of helplessness. Religion belonged to the infancy of the human race; it had been a necessary stage in the transition from childhood to maturity. It had promoted ethical values which were essential to society. Now that humanity had come of age, however, it should be left behind.

Misattributed Summary of Freud's view found in Karen Armstrong's 'A History of God (1993)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sigmund Freud (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.