Friday, August 24, 2007
Growing up out of religion
Norm recently quoted Christopher Hitchens' claim that "Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud...looked upon religion as virtually ineradicable..." and rejected it with respect to Marx, on the grounds that he did in fact envisage the "abolition" of religion. The following, from the same lecture quoted in the previous post, would seem to indicate Hitchens was wrong about Freud too:
UPDATE: Nope, he stuck to his guns and Hitchens was doubly wrong.
If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man’s evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilised individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.Mind you I haven't finished reading the lecture yet so I'll let you know if he changes his mind before the end.
UPDATE: Nope, he stuck to his guns and Hitchens was doubly wrong.
