Freud On Religion

Begin with something like “When Freud spoke about religion being a neurosis, he meant that religion is something that people made up in their minds. Basically, Freud believed that religion is a wish of fulfillment to reflect the thoughts and feeling of your childhood memories. In other words, he thought religion is a cover up for humans to mask their feelings and gluts. There is a lot of bad stuff happening in the world. They are mostly based on religion. ISIS, for example, thinks that somehow God is speaking to them to bring back order in the world by bombing countries and cutting people’s heads off. In their mind, if they think they are doing something good that will take away the guilt for everything bad they have done. They try to remove
all the wrong by doing what they think is right in their minds.
The craving for power comes from greed everyone wants to control and want to feel like they are not useless. Power, guilt, and the need for security creates instability. In taking the continent they had to do some things that made them feel guilty such as taking land from Native Americans. When Christians came to America they were exercising normal human power. One important religious doctrine that Christians proclaimed during that time was "Manifest Destiny," which meant that Christians believed it was their destiny to spread Christianity across the world, so it was okay if they had to harm people along the way. So politically, they were forming a new country and they used religion to justify their actions.