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Freud saw the origin of religious beliefs in
{ 1 } - revelation from God.
{ 2 } - human emotions.
{ 3 } - mystical experiences.
{ 4 } - instinctive reactions triggered by the experience of nature.
{ 5 } - philosophical reasoning about the origin of the world.
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Freud saw the origin of religious beliefs in
{ 1 } - revelation from God.
{ 2 } - human emotions.
{ 3 } - mystical experiences.
{ 4 } - instinctive reactions triggered by the experience of nature.
{ 5 } - philosophical reasoning about the origin of the world.
He didn't believe in God.
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Freud saw the origin of religious beliefs in
{ 1 } - revelation from God.
{ 2 } - human emotions.
{ 3 } - mystical experiences.
{ 4 } - instinctive reactions triggered by the experience of nature.
{ 5 } - philosophical reasoning about the origin of the world.
Humans believe in God because of the emotional comfort of believing in a father figure who protects us from a fearful world, gives meaning and direction to our lives, and promises eternal happiness.
Some religious thinkers have thought that our feelings lead us to believe in God; but they haven't drawn skeptical conclusions from this idea. For example, Augustine thought that humans had a built-in thirst for God that leads us to Him -- and Otto emphasized feelings of mystery, awe, and fascination that lead us to believe in the supernatural.
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Freud saw the origin of religious beliefs in
{ 1 } - revelation from God.
{ 2 } - human emotions.
{ 3 } - mystical experiences.
{ 4 } - instinctive reactions triggered by the experience of nature.
{ 5 } - philosophical reasoning about the origin of the world.
This was the view of William James.
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Freud saw the origin of religious beliefs in
{ 1 } - revelation from God.
{ 2 } - human emotions.
{ 3 } - mystical experiences.
{ 4 } - instinctive reactions triggered by the experience of nature.
{ 5 } - philosophical reasoning about the origin of the world.
This was the view of John Calvin and Alvin Plantinga. Somewhat similar is the view of Carl Jung, who explained religious beliefs in terms of instinctive religious images that all humans use to understand the world.
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Freud saw the origin of religious beliefs in
{ 1 } - revelation from God.
{ 2 } - human emotions.
{ 3 } - mystical experiences.
{ 4 } - instinctive reactions triggered by the experience of nature.
{ 5 } - philosophical reasoning about the origin of the world.
He denied that religious beliefs came from experience or thinking.
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