yash kulkarni

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Religious belief, Freud wrote in The Future of an Illusion, is “born from man’s need to make his helplessness tolerable.” Freud believed the religious impulse arose from an innate desire in primitive man to create a “father figure,” though a perfectly good and all-powerful one. Human beings worship gods for the same reason a child idolizes his father: We need love and protection; we want comfort from our deepest and darkest fears.
God: A Human History
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