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“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”

Facts Spiritual Science Death Desire Religion Fall Psychology Atheism Dying Strength Illusion Atheist Agnostic Psychiatry Atheistic Religion In Society

Book:Major Works

Source: Major Works

“You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.”

Problem Political Religion Social Interest Leader Fields Illusion Wide Priests Serving Exaggerated Political Leaders

Author:Pope John Paul II

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.”

Spiritual Religion Spirituality Practice Illusion Spiritual Practice Illusionists

Book:One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life

Source: One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life

“Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."”

States Reality Together Religion Illusion Confusion Commandments

Author:Sigmund Freud

“We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.”

Moments Religion Dies Growth Change Changed Illusion Crosses Climbs Dread Ruined Starting Anew Life Has Changed

Book:The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

Source: The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue