Men have
busied themselves in fields other than the physical sciences to rid themselves
of the innate conviction of the existence of a supreme Being. Psychologists,
such as Nietzsche, Freud, Leuba, and others have developed theories to explain
why people believe in God. We are told that the sex instinct is responsible for
religious ideas, or that man invented deities because of ignorance, fear and
superstition, or because he felt the need for security in the huge, cold,
uncertain world, or in order to maintain a certain social class or institution
in power over the masses. In other words, atheistic psychologists tell us that
God never actually existed, but that man invented God to satisfy certain needs.
And, of course, this idea dovetails nicely with the story of evolution: the idea
of God evolved with the evolution of man.
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