Sigmund Freud on Religion | The Future of an Illusion | psychology of religion

[@threestars2164]

He was right!

[@threeinthegoo1878]

hE wAs WroNG!!!111

[@vegan_chimpanzee]

Great video, I hope you get way more subs, these Videos are so dann good!

[@religiologEng]

I hope so too! Thank you for the comment. Please check my other videos.

[@JuliaMarie-oe3ii]

This is fantastic! Thank you so much, it really is helping me right now to finish my paper due tomorrow. I don't have my card on me right now, but as soon as I do, I'm going to give you a tip because seriously, I cannot thank you enough. I hope it's okay that I cite your videos in my paper. Thank you again!

[@religiologEng]

Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad it was helpful.

[@orochimaru2000]

Freud was right about everything. Religion is created to satisfy humans psychological needs .

[@philosoffoma7432]

Thank you

[@christopherswanson3317]

Great video, thank you.

[@religiologEng]

Glad you liked it!

[@americameinyourmouth9964]

How does the psychological and biological nature of hierarchy relate to religion? It seems many want leadership and even leaders have their hour of need and call upon ideology or religious favor. So does religion reflect our preference for hierarchy, to have someone or something above us?

[@discoveringthegardenofeden7882]

That is the wrong question, in that it is downstream from more primordial questions. The essential question is whether God exists. If he does, his word is normative. If God exists, the argumentation of Freud is useless and dangerous because the order God requires is tampered with which evokes his wrath. God exists, proof is everywhere. Freud is not capable of such humility and therein lies the problem. He believes in the malleable humanity, which history shows is not a correct way to asses human nature. Our ability to build utopia's is limited and apparently always leads to failure. We are just not very good at agreeing what the right thing to do is (the failing malleability) and become good, neither in believing that we were already told by God what the right way to do things is (the faltering believer who sins). Hence the state of humanity, on the whole, is between belief and disbelief, forever, until judgement with bliss for the elect and hell for the damned. And then what? Whether a hierarchy is needed at all is a separate question within that reality. But yes, hierarchies are always necessary and emergent because egalitarianism is not a natural state. There is always an imbalance in skills, resources, talents, needs. They emerge naturally within the family, by themselves, outside of any society, and they arise in every group, including in communes where they claim egalitarianism but hierarchies evidently will emerge (i.e. the commune leader and his usual harem of useful idiots). Why do they arise? Not necessarily because of biology. One cannot reduce humans to animals with additional intelligence. We have ideas about morality which to an extent are arbitrary (i.e. some tribes/families think cannibalism is mandatory (i.e. steppe tribes in Eurasia, and Andamans). Because the same intelligence leads to different outcomes in different tribes, a God and superior intelligence is needed to align tribes in their morality. Otherwise moral relativism (postmodern) sets in and the idea that anything goes spirals any society out of control and leads to chaos (as history shows). Religion prevents chaos in societies and for this reason alone it is absolutely necessary. Democratic processes don't lead to a stable collection of mores. Or, the morality of a democracy is downstream from its religious beliefs and values (necessarily), even in supposed a-religious societies beliefs are what drives changes. Religion offers stability intergenerationally. Note, the above paragraph is a conclusion separate from the question whether God and the supernatural exist, which they do. An extra paragraph on why hierarchies emerge out imbalance, without any ill intent or power dynamic, as the woke believe is always the case: simply because some have age, experience in life (toddler/parent), charisma, knowledge, social skills, a desirable talent we wish to emulate, age, wisdom, or use brute force. And also because some activities require the learning of skills, which take time hence age and knowledge become things one person lacks and the other has in excess (i.e. agriculture but also businesses, teaching, etc.). Hence the belief that one can create equality or egalitarian societies is counterfactual and counternatural because the elimination of differences is both impossible (as they arise naturally) and un-desirable (as equality requires the censoring and even deletion of unique skills). Nevertheless one should make certain natural leaders or made leaders do not trample on people lower in the hierarchy but allow for contribution in according with one's talents, where possible (for in some activities, like an army, it is just not possible to cater to needs, there duties are more important than personal development). This requires both the induction into a fixed set morals (writing the law and moral code on the hearts of people) and regulation. Religion, the law of God, in balance with human law does this. Human laws alone lead to over-regulation because the belief the humans are to be trusted is absent (i.e. compliance instead of trust).

[@americameinyourmouth9964]

We all believe people are malleable otherwise we wouldn’t educate, inculcate and guide children. People can be taught but nature is fixed, so our teaching helps restrain or channel this nature to better uses. Clearly hierarchy is biological which is why it manifests in every human population, however the way it manifests, its structure is sociocultural. To your main point, the utility of religion is the spread and acceptance of values that are humane, and promote good conduct and flourishing. But these values are spread by belief in them not by supernatural providence. Meaning good values can be decoupled from supernatural beliefs. And as values of universal humanism spread they lead to societies with more moral conscientiousness and less barbarism which in turn promotes the utility of humanism as a good system of values.

[@discoveringthegardenofeden7882]

@@americameinyourmouth9964 First and second paragraph I mostly agree, but third paragraph: There is no such thing as universalism. One hopes indeed that the arc of the moral universe is long but bends toward justice. As a rally cry this is golden, unfortunately history shows this is decidedly not the case. What is seen is a succession of reversals of patterns. The illuminated contribution of racially focused Darwin, with his views on good and bad human races, as per evolution, led directly to the eugenic and racist atrocities of the interbellum and during World War 2. The Victorious West corrected this chaos with the Bretton Woods institutions and the body of human rights. Progress, we all sighed, and agreed with Martin Luther King that good is possible, thanks to what was labelled 'humanism'. Last month however the UN, after five years of deliberation, drafted a human rights bill proposal to decriminalize sex between adults and minors which when enacted becomes international law, to be implemented in all nations. You see, the 1950'ies version of UN HR Law was squarely based on Christian values and enforced by Christian nations (the victorious West). The legal taboos which exist in the world today stem from the Judeo-Christian world view, which derives from God. Because not all humans accept God, these values are not understood as being normative by a faction. Other examples are the HRights of sanctity of life and freedom of religion. These values are not supported by humans with a non-Christian world view (i.e. competing Cairo declaration of Human rights, signed by 40+ Muslim countries which materially negates the UNHR declaration). Christian Nations enforced an end to slavery and enforced freedom of religion as all humans are children made in the image of God to be delivered out of Egypt, that is, out of the bonds of slavery. When you take away God, you dethrone the values in Judeo-Christianity. Moral relativism, once allowed, drastically changes the contents of universal rights of UN to the democratic flavor of the day. Pedophilia, slavery, enforcement of world-views (non-freedom of religion or enforced secularism), the non-sanctity of life; these issues were never completely absent, but they will make a rapid come back because they are perfectly acceptable within the other major competing world views and religions which exist on this Earth. That same arcing towards justice, if you allow it to continue bending, will go full circle, back to injustice. That is how malleable we are. God and Bible long warned us what will happen when we step away from the intergenerational wisdom behind his rules. The stories are history. They are Truth. Wisdom and prevention of folly follows from their study.

[@americameinyourmouth9964]

Of course there is no such thing as universalism which is why there is no one true religion. I said BELIEF in universal human values because belief in an idea brings praxis which reifies it.

[@americameinyourmouth9964]

Darwin did not believe in racial hierarchy he was opposed to what he called in Descent of Man “ranking the so called races of man as distinct species”, “that civilized nations were once barbarous” and he was an abolitionist. He did however believe men’s superior position in society to be naturally selected. All ideas like all technology can be used for good or evil. Double edged is the human mind as is the sword.

[@Augusty.]

Its just awesome ❤🎉

[@religiologEng]

glad you liked it! Please check out other videos on the channel. Also soon will be video on William James

[@Augusty.]

Are you instagram ?

[@religiologEng]

@@Augusty.do you mean if I have Instagram? Unfortunately no.

[@religiologEng]

Thank you for watching! Check out my other videos: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaa9opyhe76WZtU Please, support Religiolog through a one-time donation: www.paypal.com/paypalme/religiolog Or become my Patron: www.patreon.com/4religiolog

[@jo69ma]

Powerful lessons!!!!

[@Joe-pu3qi]

Freud started the religion of Freudianism

[@Johnny360guy]

“He concludes (ad starts) how are you spending your money”

[@religiologEng]

sorry, I don't understand the question. Are you asking me?

[@Janus10001]

The irony is that psychoanalysis was discredited (and Freud defrocked) while religion is going strong and even making a comeback.

[@Beautyargentina6]

Not true.

[@cristig243]

No irony . Just physics .

[@HumanNothing-n6c]

The present comeback of religion and conservatism in Europe and Asia is not because people have become god loving suddenly but because people have suddenly started hating god of other religions. So the way to fight with other religions are embracing one's own religion.

[@Augusty.]

What is your stand on religion ? Do you belive or reject ?

[@religiologEng]

sorry, I don't discuss it publicly

[@danish24m-ez5jt]

​@@religiologEngYour choice, but it would certainly great to know

[@coolboy5245]

​@@religiologEng smart man

[@Shyamsundar-fd4iw]

Freud was right

[@upendrawijeratne]

I think you are right

[@Elvengem]

Freud isnt in Heaven, not likely! Too bad he didnt love the God of his forefathers,but rejected Him by interpreting the mind as all material and not anything spiritual.

[@upendrawijeratne]

Freud was rational and realistic. He realized rationality will soothe both the mind and the body. Freud found heaven while he was alive on earth.

[@Elvengem]

@@upendrawijeratne he was too perverted. but who knows how "hard" he could even get anymore at that old age except in his vain mind.

[@harrisonmwawana2064]

So we just live like animals 🤔

[@cristig243]

Not all of us . Glory to God !

[@johncunningham739]

The god psychosis & neurosis are real. It is a shame that they don't understand the evolution of religion. In the bible story after jesus died religion was to be a spiritual situation and not the physical, which has caused severe problems.

[@seaside3218]

Religion has become so prominent because it is the easiest way to find the existential truth’s that man so eagerly craves. They hear of the god and his afterlife and they feel comfort, comfort in knowing that God and existence loves him, and he sighs in relief, almost like a drug. It is for this reason that he defends god with his all. Religion is an opium that man so willingly indulges. Now who would let A fellow man fall into such an unhealthy addiction.

[@benjaminpendleton7797]

Atheists assume that fear is the basis of religious belief. In my case at least, their assumption couldn't be more wrong. I chose religion when I saw a quote from the Bible that I loved and that inspired me. Love is the foundation of my religion, not fear.

[@religiologEng]

Thank you for sharing this, Benjamin.

[@HumanNothing-n6c]

No atheist believe that fear is the basis of religious belief. The basis of religious belief is emotion and failure to do reason . Love, Faith, Fear these all things are emotion and have no place in rational analysis.

[@benjaminpendleton7797]

@@HumanNothing-n6c Atheists often say that the fear of death is the cause of religion.

[@benjaminpendleton7797]

@@HumanNothing-n6c And what makes you assume that your "reason" exists? According to your own beliefs, it's ultimately just based on chemical reactions, etc.

[@HumanNothing-n6c]

@@benjaminpendleton7797 By your logic nothing exists which leads to nihilism. Reason is the capability of human psyche to see something through a critical lense. It doesn't exist because it's an expression. However what makes you believe that God exist?

[@noname-by3qz]

Astrology has been debunked? Quite the opposite. People who've tried to debunk it have been convinced. It's just a matter of finding someone with good training and experience.

[@iancraddock5473]

Yes. It has been debunked. By James Randi..

[@cliomaniac]

Wow. Please drop the names of these scientists who presumably were convinced of astrology

[@AZ-dj2ku]

@@cliomaniac I'm curios too. Please share and I'm ready to explore their claims.

[@religiologEng]

want to hear more about such experts

[@noname-by3qz]

@@Vicrattleskull2028 It's been done. I'm not talking about little blurbs in the paper. I mean a real natal chart by someone who's studied it for many years. Yes there's evidence.

[@nirvanacrown6516]

You spelled fraud wrong...

[@religiologEng]

where? Did I use Fraud somewhere?

[@search_ex_muslim_sahil_yt]

@@religiologEng he is saying Sigmund fraud

[@religiologEng]

@@search_ex_muslim_sahil_yt :)

[@TAFROB29]

Great video, thank you

[@religiologEng]

Glad you liked it!