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Freud

Freud saw God as an illusion stemming from a child's need for a powerful father figure. He believed religion was once necessary to curb violence in early civilization but can now be replaced by reason and science.
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Freud

Freud saw God as an illusion stemming from a child's need for a powerful father figure. He believed religion was once necessary to curb violence in early civilization but can now be replaced by reason and science.
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Freud regarded God as an illusion, based on the infantile need for a powerful father figure; religion,

necessary to help us restrain violent impulses earlier in the development of civilization, can now be set
aside in favor of reason and science.

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