Views on Freud: Civilization and its Discontents Chapter 1 part 2

Last post I started writing about Freud’s opinions regarding what should be of true value to people; those whose achievements are completely foreign to those of the multitude.  One of those exceptional few is Freud’s friend, whom Freud sends a book to explaining that Religion is an illusion how and why he thinks that way Freud does not elaborate. Upon that fact his friend replies that he agrees with Freud’s judgment upon religion, but that the friend is sorry Freud had not properly appreciate the true source of religious sentiments. This, The Friend says, is a feeling he would like to call a sensation of ‘eternity’, which he goes on saying that this feeling is the source off of which all Churches and Religious systems direct their sources from and which they exhaust. Freud than says that his friends thoughts caused him no small difficulty which he than says that he himself never has felt such feelings and try’s to elaborate on the origin of this feeling and if this feeling is the “fons et origo” (source and origin) of religion.

I personally have never felt such feelings of an eternal entity though I truly believe there is a god or some sort of eternal power which began it all. Though the origin for religion has nothing to do with god. Religion stems for the need of society for order; A system of rules which people govern in order to enable peace and order in an otherwise chaotic society. In order to prove this we need to look through the Jewish tradition’s laws, where the problems and issues are all social related, it again can be viewed that during the holiest of days, Yom Kippur, when we ask for forgiveness from god we are told we cannot make amends for the sins we made towards man but only by asking for forgiveness from the person we actually hurt. Than why have god? And sins? And heaven and hell?

Well, god does and cannot or doesn’t have to since we don’t have free will in the first place (I will elaborate on that another time). But in order for us not to commit any crime there needs to be a constant watching eye over our actions. We must envision some sort of “Big Brother” to make sure we do the correct thing, so religion created this idea and all the things that stem from it; Heaven, Hell and so on.