On Jun 3, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Robert Wrubel wrote:
> Didn't Freud say that religion arose out early childhood experience
> -- most generally, out of an inability to give up the comforting
> sense of a world centered on "me" and managed by protective (or
> punishing) dieties?
>
> This is a broad enough description to apply to primitive
> societies, and it's hard to say whether it's a cultural formation
> or a private need.
But if it's so fundamental, why have so many of us shed it? Most of Western Europe and Japan, and even some 14% of Americans are more or less secular.
Doug