Dogma, Doctrine And Freud
..Is religion really no more than primitive man’s attempt to understand his world? Do we really look to the heavens because we cannot fathom a life without meaning?
Religion has not endured because of the Creation story or because of the Bible as a historical document. Religion has endured because it is about choices, morality and virtue. People believe in God because their belief offers them something of great personal value that takes them outside their individual selves. Perhaps the most important idea religion offers man is a sense of identity and his place in the cosmos.