Sunday, October 11, 2009

"The idea of 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 worshipped 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."
-Sigmund Freud
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  1. marsOctober 17, 2009 at 12:35 AM

    justice and fairness...pish posh..

    "The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion."--Thomas Paine

    I'm damn sure not 100% with this quote, but I mean come on. People could give a fuck abut justice and fairness when they, individually, feel so desperately helpless. I do get what is meant, but I don't see how one could desire something but not act on/for/towards it. Maybe I just went around in a circle there in that he was saying we desire(d) justice/fairness but we want(ed) someone/thing else to make it so because we're not fuckin human enough to compose and enact these things, values whatevs ourselves. I guess it also depends on how justice/fairness are defined, though. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. Damn damn damn it to hell. Or wherever.

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  2. marsOctober 17, 2009 at 12:41 AM

    oh, and,

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1LzVN8nqg0

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