Another truck attack, this time in Sweden, where a ‘lone wolf’, as they are so euphemistically termed, plowed into an ‘upscale’ department store in Stockholm, killing four and injuring a number of others. The suspect tried to flee in a ‘confusing’ manner, was captured, and is now expected before a judge. I wonder what his[…]
Day: April 6, 2017
The Psychoanalytic Roots of Atheism
The pioneer psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was an atheist. Lacking an in-depth knowledge of philosophy, he took atheism as a self-evident truth. Religion, specifically the Judeo-Christian religion, he regarded as the mere “longing for a father” complex. He thought the desire for someone to worship was a collective neurosis that needed to be treated, and[…]