Shroud of Turin stirs new controversy

[Human]

Kevin Quail wrote:

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"Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever. "
"Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis."
"The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life."
Freud certainly regarded belief in God as an illusion that mature men and women should lay aside. The idea of God was not a lie but a device of the unconscious which needed to be decoded by psychology. A personal god was nothing more than an exalted father-figure: desire for such a deity sprang from infantile yearnings for a powerful, protective father, for justice and fairness and for life to go on forever. God is simply a projection of these desires, feared and worshipped by human beings out of an abiding sense of helplessness. Religion belonged to the infancy of the human race; it had been a necessary stage in the transition from childhood to maturity. It had promoted ethical values which were essential to society. Now that humanity had come of age, however, it should be left behind.[A History of God]
-Sigmund Freud, Austrian physician and pioneer psychoanalyst (1856-1939).

Yes!!

[Conjecture]

I've got a piece of used toilet paper that looks like a picture of Mohammid O'Bama. Any bids?

[I BOOTLEG DVDS]

Conjecture wrote:

I've got a piece of used toilet paper that looks like a picture of Mohammid O'Bama. Any bids?

any chance it will cure cancer, or bring me luck with the lottery?

if i can get a million dollar govt grant re this, i'll contact you again.

[Cathy]

Kevin Quail wrote:

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"The idea of God was not a lie but a device of the unconscious which needed to be decoded by psychology.

Don't decode me. You are so alone. I'll pray for you.

[Tja]

Monotheism has destroyed the planet.

Polytheism is the sole answer.

[Kevin Quail]

Cathy wrote:

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Don't decode me. You are so alone. I'll pray for you.

Hey, go ahead and pray but you are just wasting your time talking to yourself.