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[345] "The much-vaunted “child-likeness” of faith only makes sense when the feeling behind the experience is still alive. If it gets lost, faith is only another word for habitual, infantile dependence, which takes the place of, and actually prevents, the struggle for deeper understanding. This seems to be the position we have reached today."

[345] But with this kind of faith there is always the danger of mere habit supervening—it may so easily degenerate into spiritual inertia and a thoughtless compliance which, if persisted in, threatens stagnation and cultural regression.

[345] “Legitimate” faith must always rest on experience. There is, however, another kind of faith which rests exclusively on the authority of tradition. This kind of faith could also be called “legitimate,” since the power of tradition embodies an experience whose importance for the continuity of culture is beyond question.

I can't back up any more today, it's exhaustion. Why do I use this damn reading app?? Why??

[343] " The religious myth is one of man’s greatest and most significant achievements, giving him the security and inner strength not to be crushed by the monstrousness of the universe...it is psychologically true, for it was and is the bridge to all that is best in humanity."

[342] "We like to imagine that our primitive traits have long since disappeared without trace. In this we are cruelly disappointed, for never before has our civilization been so swamped with evil. This gruesome spectacle helps us to understand what Christianity was up against and what it endeavoured to transform."

[342] Now I in some degree understand why I instantly feel for his works and even his personality. Wow.
Wow, arrogant supercilious and condescending bastard, sociopath hidden under, hahaha

[341] "who throws Christianity overboard and with it the whole basis of morality, is bound to be confronted with the age-old problem of brutality. We have had bitter experience of what happens when a whole nation finds the moral mask too stupid to keep up. The beast breaks loose, and a frenzy of demoralization sweeps over the civilized world."
...According to ancient Rome.

[341] "@ a time when a large part of mankind is beginning to discard Christianity, it may be worth our while to try to understand why it was accepted in the first place. It was accepted as a means of escape from the brutality & unconsciousness of the ancient world. ASA we discard it, the old brutality returns in force, as has been made overwhelmingly clear by contemporary events. It's a step backwards 2 past."

[337] "...archetypes are the forms or river-beds along which the current of psychic life has always flowed. It is not possible to discuss the problem of symbol-formation without reference to the instinctual processes, because it is from them that the symbol derives its motive power. Hence, a discussion of one of the strongest instincts, sexuality, is unavoidable, since most of symbols r analogies of this instinct."