After seeing all of the different views the theorists had on religion I was still unsure of how one of the theorists ideas and views towards religion could possibly be considered or viewed as an option. That theorist is Sigmund Freud, because everything that I learned about him and especially his theories have made me think that he should have never been considered a theorist of religion in any way. The first problem I have with him is he is an atheist. I don’t see how someone could be an atheist and have an idea or view on what religion is, should be, or ever could be. I also disagree with him saying that religion resembles mental illness and that there is no God. I had never heard of Sigmund Freud, but after learning everything about his I don’t know how anyone could ever believe or agree with anything in his theory.
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I totally understand how you think that he should not get to have an opinion about religions, but he did many studies and in a way proved that religion is like having a mental illness. His patients with Neurosis was what he compared religion to. Patients with this illness can have obsessive-compulsive disorder, and with this they do things very thoroughly and at certain times and certain ways. Just like how Christians make sure that they do not break the ten commandments or how they perform communion a certain way and at certain times of the year. Everyone deserves to have their own opinion and it is up to us to decide if we agree and disagree to believe in it.
I totally understand why you think Freud should not have an opinion on matters of religion, but he has done many studies to prove that being in a religion is like having a mental illness. The patients that he worked with had Neurosis and sometimes with Neurosis comes obsessive-compulsive disorder. This disorder causes people to do regular things very thoroughly and certain ways and at certain times. I compare this religion because there are things that are done very thoroughly and if not done that way are not allowed to be accepted, and some rites or rituals are done on certain days and at certain times. Everyone deserves to have an opinion and it is up to us to decide if we believe or if we do not believe in it.
Sorry about the second one I thought that I deleted my first one.
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