With his sights focused upon Christianity, noted 19th-century revolutionary Karl Marx famously railed that “religion is the opiate for the masses.” Psychologist Sigmund Freud contemptuously opined, “Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a [...]
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Religion: an emotional crutch?
Posted in Discipleship, Life, tagged C. S. Lewis, Discipleship, Karl Marx, obedience, Richard Niebuhr, Sigmund Freud on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »