Three things we don’t understand are how his ideas apply to the modern world, how does human consciousness challenge his perspective and what role his ideas play in society.

I think all the things we stated above are interesting and worth diving into a little more. The conscious mind and ego are idea we would like to discuss more as well

• How religion controls society and how it affects politics and everyday life today.

• How peoples daily life is shaped by their religion and their actions are shaped about what there religions beliefs are.

• About he understand why people follow religion because of fear. They fear if they don’t follow a religion it could lead to death.

Three we don’t understand:

• how does someone out grow a religion? It seems people follow religions and grow with it.

• Freud fails to ever bring up how people feel about religion( the emotion side). He only ever explains the morals. (The logical side)

• Why does Freud think that religious beliefs are illusions? Is he struggling to understand the importance of belief or is he just not wanting to believe in religion?

Religion isn’t the solution to make society happy

Civilization is better off without religion

Belief in religion is childish, and to grow you need to turn away from religion.

3 Things we don’t understand

Does he believe that our morals will be upheld if religion is gone from society?

What does he think about freedom of religion?

Does he think of other religions in the same way he does about Christianity?

3 Interesting Things

He argues that history both increases respect for religion but also is what can be used to dismantle it.

The analogy he used to explain how religion is childish.

In his belief, religion’s time is up to prove that it is beneficial to society.

Don’t Understand: Comparison of God to a father figure, discussion of infantile and obsessional neuroses, role of psychoanalysis

Fundamental: Religion and religious doctrines help maintain order in society, religion is an illusion that functions to comfort society, educated people help progress society versus religious individuals

• Religion is essential for adults who are still "child like" to understand

• Psychoanalysis leads to the denial of god

• Religion is essentiel to society as it prevents a lot of negative actions

3 things we don't understand:

• He says that God and religion is for those who don't understand but he capitalizes "God" as if he is religious

• What does he mean by neuroticism?

• How can we be moral without religion to hold us accountable?

3 things we found interesting:

• God prevents people from doing dangerous acts (Example: killing your neighbor)

• Religion changes and bends history

• Freud holds that the future of civilization depends on replacing religion with rational thinking and scientific understanding

Religion is an illusion

Religion is used as a “security blanket”

Science in place of religion

What we found interesting:

Religion prevents chaos but also holds us back

The clash between science and religion

Religion and or beliefs in something more is inevitable in society

What we want to discuss more:

How science and religion go against each

other and or complement each other?

He says there would be no order without religion but also says that religion is a bad thing for us why is that?

What does Freud mean by the insecurity of life?

1. what does the psychoanalysis of religion mean?

2. The wordage and terminology are hard to understand and sometimes make the arguments hard to follow.

3. Who are the well known men that Freud says have already said what he has said before him?

1. What are god’s intentions? Freud says that we have to guess what those are

2. Freud believes that religion's purpose is used to enforce moral behavior but also believes that it prevents people from facing reality. Why do these thing have to be correlated?

3. Freud believes that people need a role model to follow that is a real person. He doesn’t believe that modeling behavior after god, a supposedly perfect being, is the most effective way to instill morals into people