WHAT SIGMUND FREUD SAID ABOUT RELIGION FREUD#1: RELIGION AND NEUROSIS ARE BOTH CREATIONS OF HOW THE HUMAN MIND WORKS AND THE WAY IT LEADS TO NEUROSIS, RELIGION, AND COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR. RELIGION'S NEED FOR REPETITIVE RITUALS AND NEUROTIC OBSESSIONS EXPOSES ITS WEAKNESS IN TERMS OF RATIONAL THOUGHT AND EVIDENCE. FREUD#2: ATTRIBUTION OF HUMANS TO GODS IS WITHOUT EVIDENCE. GOD DID NOT CREATE HUMANS. HUMANS CREATED GODS. FREUD#3: RELIGION IS AN ILLUSION: ALL RELIGIOUS BELIEFS ARE ILLUSIONS BECAUSE THERE IS NO PROOF OR EVIDENCE AND BECAUSE OF THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF PROOF OR EVIDENCE FOR THESE CLAIMS. FREUD #4: CIVILIZATION IS NOT A CREATION OF RELIGION. IT IS AN INDEPENDENT AND UNRELATED FEATURE OF THE HUMANS. FREUD#5: THE NEED FOR DOGMATIC RELIGIOUS TRAINING AND FORECLOSING OF LINES OF INQUIRY IS MADE NECESSARY BY THE ABSENCE OF THE EVIDENCE THAT THESE LINES OF INQUIRY MUST LOOK FOR. BOTTOM LINE: MAN IS NOT A CREATION OF GOD BUT GOD IS A CREATION OF MAN. POSTSCRIPT: AT THE SAME TIME WHAT WE FIND IN WIKIPEDIA IS THAT A GLOBAL STUDY OF RELIGIOSITY AND INTELLIGENCE SHOWS THAT NATIONAL AVERAGE IQ IS INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO NATIONAL AVERAGE RELIGIOSITY. THIS STUDY APPEARS TO IMPLY THAT THE DUMBER YOU ARE THE EASIER IT IS TO SELL YOU RELIGION. OTHER BIZARRE WIERDNESSES OF RELIGION POLYGAMY FOR MORE THAN HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY, RELIGION AND ITS RELIGION LEADERS PROMOTED POLYGAMY SUCH THAT IT WAS WIDELY ACCEPTED AS THE RIGHT AND GODLY THING TO DO AND THUS WIDELY PRACTICED AROUND THE WORLD. FINALLY, AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY, THE PRIESTS AND THE CHURCH CHANGED THEIR MIND AND BACKTRACKED ON THE POLYGAMY ISSUE. THIS WEIRD HISTORICAL ISSUE IN RELIGION ALONG WITH MANY OTHERS LIKE IT HAVE DESTROYED THE IMAGE OF RELIGION AS BEING ALWAYS RIGHT BY DEFINITION BY VIRTUE OF THE POWER OF HAVING GOD ON THEIR SIDE. GEOCENTRICISM THEN THERE IS THE BIZARRE ISSUE OF GEOCENTRICISM, THAT MESSAGE FROM GOD DELIVERED TO THE CLERGY THAT GOD HAD CREATED THE UNIVERSE SUCH THAT THE EARTH, WITH ITS GODLY WORSHIPERS OF GOD WOULD BE AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE JUST GOES AROUND THE EARTH. OF COURSE NOW WE KNOW THIS IS NOT TRUE BUT BACK IN THE 17TH CENTURY WHEN GALILEO DISCOVERED THAT THE EARTH GOES AROUND THE SUN HE WAS IMPRISONED FOR HIS CRIME AGAINST RELIGION - THE INCREDIBLE CRIME OF DEBATING GOD WITH THE IMPOSSIBLE HYPOTHESIS THAT GOD WAS WRONG. BUT AMAZINGLY RELIGION SURVIVED THAT AND MANY OTHER SUCH BIZARRE EVENTS MAYBE BECAUSE THE RELIGION FREAKS HAVE GOD ON THEIR SIDE. IN GENERAL, NO MATTER HOW ODD THE PROPOSITION, IN RELIGION IT CAN STILL BE MADE BECAUSE OF THE SUBSUMED INFINITY IN THE POWER OF GOD AND THAT LEADS TO BIZARRE HYPOTHESES THAT CANNOT BE CHALLENGED NO MATTER HOW BIZARRE BECAUSE BY DEFINITION GOD'S POWER IS INFINITE AND WITHOUT CONSTRAINT. AS FOR EXAMPLE RELIGION HAD ONCE ESTABLISHED A MEDICAL POLICY WHEREIN A HOLY MAN COULD HEAL YOU FROM A BLEEDING INJURY BY LICKING THE PUSS OFF YOUR WOUNDS AND THEY COULD HEAL LEPROSY BY EATING THE SCABS OFF OF PEOPLE WITH LEPROSY. AND RELIGION ALSO ORDAINED THAT THE WAY TO HELP YOUR DEAD FRIEND OR RELATIVE GO TO HEAVEN WAS TO CUT UP THEIR DEAD BODY AND THEN TO SCATTER THOSE PIECES ON A MOUNTAIN. THIS IS HOW WEIRD RELIGION IS BUT IT GETS EVEN WEIRDER. FOR EXAMPLE, IF RELIGION IS GOD GIVEN TRUTH, WHY ARE THERE 4000 RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD THAT ALL DISAGREE WITH EACH OTHER? WHICH ONE IS THE GOD GIVEN TRUTH? IF ANY ONE OF THESE IS THE GOD GIVEN TRUTH, THE REST OF THEM ARE GOD GIVEN LIES. AND WE ARE SUPPOSED TO WORSHIP THIS LIAR? A QUORA QUESTION BY ADAM FAYED: WHEN WILL PEOPLE REALIZE THAT RELIGION IS NONSENSE? FAYED'S QUESTION IS ANSWERED BY ALAN JOSEPH : YES, ALL RELIGIONS ARE MADE UP OF NONSENSE. GODS ARE ALL MAN MADE. THERE IS ZERO EVIDENCE FOR MAGICAL SUPERNATURAL BEINGS. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT RELIGION IS DYING OUT. THE ALAN JOSEPH HYPOTHESIS IS THAT IF THERE ARE 4000 TRUTHS THAT DISAGREE THEY MUST ALL BE BULLSHIT. CONCLUSION: RELIGION IS BULLSHIT