Marc Gilbert-Widmann

Tag: religion

  • Freudian Words of the Day 22Feb 2014 ~ Oedipus Complex

    “Religion is the universal obsessional neurosis of mankind; like the obsessional neurosis of children, arouse out of the Oedipus complex, out of the relation to the father… [It is] a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.” “The God–Creator is openly called father. Psychoanalysis…

  • Science Quote of the Day 15 Dec 2013 – Religions

    “Many questions come to mind. How influenced by contemporary religions were many of the scholars who wrote the texts available today? How many scholars have simply assumed that males have always played the dominant role in leadership and creative invention and projected this assumption into their analysis of ancient cultures? Why do so many people…

  • Triple Quote Saturday – 14 December 2013- Imagine

    “Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and…