FAMOUS QUOTE FROM SIGMUND FREUD for your comment/agreement/rebuttal:
And a quote:
“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 result of biological and psychological necessities. [...] If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man’s evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.”
–Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism, 1939
EDIT TO ADD, I believe Evolutionist/Atheist Richard Dawkins, Oxford don, buys into this Sigmund Freud “neurosis” idea. He wrote about it in his best seller : THE GOD DELUSION.
Translation: religion is to civilization as adolescence is to indivdual development. It is a necessary stage civilization goes through to get from immaturity to adulthood. Immaturity being tribal and superstitious and maturity being rationality?
I don’t agree with Freud if the sense of what he is saying is something like the above. Religion and rationalty are wrapped around one another like strands of DNA and are not either/or propositions, rather they enhance and play off of one another, each necessary for the existence of the other.