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" Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to some vague abstraction which they have created for themselves; having done so they can pose before all the world as deists,... "
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice - Page ix
by Christopher Hitchens - 1995 - 98 pages
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Dojo: Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan

Winston Davis - 1980 - 356 pages
...of integrity or authenticity. Looking at Mioshie, many would feel compelled to agree with Freud that "where questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanour."25 My purpose in these concluding remarks on the...
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Freud and the Scientific Method

Paul Rosenfels - 1980 - 86 pages
...irresponsibly or rest content with such feeble grounds for his opinions and for the line he takes. .. .where questions of religion are concerned, people...every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. .. .they give the name of 'God' to some vague abstraction which they have created for...
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Psychotherapy and Buddhism: Toward an Integration

Jeffrey B. Rubin - 1996 - 230 pages
...Freud believed that all sorts of "crimes" (1927, p. 32) were committed in the name of religion: "when questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty...every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor" (1927, p. 32). He hoped that humankind would surmount this "neurotic phase" and attain...
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Why Did Freud Reject God?: A Psychodynamic Interpretation

Ana-Maria Rizzuto - 1998 - 332 pages
...proof of the existence of God. At this late date, Brentano's tight reasoning received a harsh response: "Where questions of religion are concerned, people...sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanour. Philosophers stretch the meaning of words. . . . They give the name of God to some vague abstraction....
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A Psychoanalysis for Our Time: Exploring the Blindness of the Seeing I

Jeffrey Rubin - 1998 - 276 pages
...believed however, that all sorts of "crimes" (p. 32) were committed in the name of religion: "when questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty...every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor" (ibid.). He hoped that humankind would surmount this "neurotic phase" and attain an "education...
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Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion: Aims, Methods and Theories of ...

Jacques Waardenburg - 1999 - 772 pages
...people that one is still firmly attached to religion, when one has long since cut oneself loose from it. Where questions of religion are concerned, people...sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanour. Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense....
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Other Analyses

Geoffrey Bennington - 2004 - 458 pages
...root for religion, attachment or binding itself], when one has long since cut oneself loose from it. Where questions of religion are concerned, people...sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanour. Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense....
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Christian Dogma

Barry E. Blood Sr. - 2004 - 194 pages
...people that one is still firmly attached to religion, when one has long since cut oneself loose from it. Where questions of religion are concerned, people...every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their...
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Preludes: Essays on the Ludic Imagination, 1961-1981

Christine Downing - 2005 - 308 pages
...places, at all times, have had to contend with. Freud may protest the extension of the word 1C J>5 god : Where questions of religion are concerned people are...every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their...
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The Spirit of the Child: Revised Edition

David Hay - 2006 - 224 pages
...study religion or a closely allied subject like spirituality. Freud famously offered the opinion that 'where questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanour'.4 There is no doubt that he had religious believers...
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