“Religion is nothing but psychology projected into the external world.” (Freud)
“A personal God is, psychologically, nothing other than an exalted father.” (Freud)
“Biologically speaking, religiousness is to be traced to the small human child’s long-drawn-out helplessness and need of help…at a later date…when confronted with the great forces of life…he regresses to the force which protected his childhood.” (Freud)
“The ‘longing for the father’ constitutes the root of every form of religion.” (Freud)
“Religion was 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.” (Freud)
“Religion is the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity.” (Freud)
“We recognise that the roots for the need for religion are in the parental complex.” (Freud)
Religious dogmas are illusions “fulfilments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind.” (Freud)
“The religious life represents a dramatization on a cosmic plane of the emotions, fears and longings which arose in the child’s relation to his parents.” (Ernest Jones)