According to the "projection theory", we developed religion out of a need to defend ourselves against the crushing superior forces of nature. As a child needs a father for protection, so we feel the need to create a protector God.
2006-11-22 16:13:43 · 12 answers · asked by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hint: It was developed before Freud made it better known.
2006-11-22 16:21:27 · update #1
Pat: It isn't a "test." I just like to ask objective but not terribly obvious trivia-like questions about religion, atheism, and related subjects.
2006-11-22 16:24:17 · update #2
Feuerbach
2006-11-22 18:07:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-12 23:06:24 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that was Sigmund Freud. I'll have to double check. Why the test?
Edit: After I read your post that it wasn't Freud, I been doing some background reading on google. I can't answer your question, but I would like to say that sometimes it is nice to be right and sometimes it is nice to be wrong.
2006-11-22 16:18:24 · answer #3 · answered by Just Wondering 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea who said that. I am not as well-read, as some people are.
However, It was stated by another author that God smiles the most when a person realizes that they have no need for God.
(not an exact quote....but the implication is there).
God just is....no opinion or faith is required. No religion can crush the superior force of Nature's God.
2006-11-22 16:28:42 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Religion is nothing but a fixed conformity to Spiritualism.
Spiritual wisdom can't be put into solid substance so religion was established to at least represent and mirror these wisdom in the form of rituals, prayers, etc. Unfortunately, religious followers start to see religions as the true pathway to God.
2006-11-22 16:23:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, the others are right. It was Sigmund Freud . I remember learning about that thought in Psy. class.
2006-11-22 16:23:14 · answer #6 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dr. Freud, who is no longer considered a reliable source in the field of Psychology.
2006-11-22 16:18:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
We develop religions because we need to believe in something and not to let us go to the forces of evil which are deep inside us.... Believing is a way to deny the devil...And look well in History, the greatest evil men were apostates, like Hitler and Stalin....
2006-11-22 16:17:42 · answer #8 · answered by Mimi 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Aristotle.
10 points for the witches, YEA!
2006-11-22 16:26:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
You are entitled to your beliefs, and I am entitled to mine, I did not have to invent God he invented me, and I believe that Fathers are born with the instinct to be Fathers because God put the instinct there..... I think people simply have a problem with submitting.
2006-11-22 16:29:54 · answer #10 · answered by Alicia S 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋