This article (though a couple of years old) is fantastic, and - TopicsExpress



          

This article (though a couple of years old) is fantastic, and exactly the kind of intersection or dissection (take your pick) of religion and philosophy I discuss with Michael. Existential anxiety is so disturbing that most people avoid it at all costs. They construct an inauthentic but comforting reality made up of moral codes, bourgeois values, habits, customs, culture, and even— arguably—religion. The Harvard theologian Paul Tillich (1886-1965) and indeed Freud himself suggested that religion is nothing more than a carefully crafted coping mechanism for existential anxiety. For Tillich true faith consists simply in ‘being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God.’ psychologytoday/blog/hide-and-seek/201205/our-hierarchy-needs
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:23:40 +0000

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