Sigmund Freud had immense influence on the science, culture, art, and folk wisdom of the modern West. It is also true that without Freud’s mother we wouldn’t have had Freud, and that Freud’s personality, ambitions, and opinions were likely shaped to a significant extent by his relations with his mother—as he would be the first to admit. But when writing the history of the modern West, nobody expects to find an entire chapter on Freud’s mother. Similarly, without Judaism you would not have had Christianity, but that doesn’t merit granting much importance to Judaism when writing the history of
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