Religious experience criticisms
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- Religious experience criticisms
- Sigmund Freud
- R.E are a result of neuroses-trauma
- Nature and the world provokes man to be fearful
- "Man's self-regard calls for consolation"
- We therefore desire a father figure
- "Thus, man's longing for a father is emotive... With his need for protection"
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- God is a human idea and is entirely anthropomorphic- in terms of human desires
- "God is 'man' written in large letters"
- Carl Gustav Jung
- Within psychologicalcompleteness there is the development of spirituality - it is an essential part of our psyche
- We all possess the essential archetype/form of God within our subconscious
- William James
- There is a psychologicalaspect to R.E but that does not mean it is just psychological- the psychology may be part of a mystic experience
- A psychologicalaspect of religious experience may be safety, peace and a feeling of love and comfort
- Persinger
- "Anticipation of own demise is the price we pay for a highly developed frontal lobe"
- Kluger
- "Which came first, God or the need for God?"
- "Did humans create religion from clues sent from above, or did evolution instil in Us A sense of the divine"
- Kant
- Our senses can only experience things in the empirical realm - the phenomenal. It is impossible for us to experience the noumena like as a matter of logic
- Therefore, it is impossible for us to experience God
- Our senses can only experience things in the empirical realm - the phenomenal. It is impossible for us to experience the noumena like as a matter of logic
- Alston
- In response to Kant- religious experience is similar to our normal sensory perception. There may be an aspect of our mind that is able to experience God
- Marx
- "Religion is the opium of the people"
- Sigmund Freud
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