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And religion is a great way of absolving yourself of responsibility.

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*dashinvaine Feb 2, 2013
Apparently the attribution of this quite to Freud is questionable.

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~AAtheist Feb 3, 2013
I wasn't aware of that, I do spend a bit of time checking up on the quotes I use, and this one seemed to be better than most in its qualifications. I don't really have time to edit images any more, so I'm afraid I'm going to be leaving it up there, but thank you for bringing it to my attention :)
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*devine-consciousness Jan 20, 2013
thats why the masses are run by a select few and sigmund freud knew all about that
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*MALFUNCTIONFAILURE Aug 29, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Sadly, sadly true. . .
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~KittyTheNekoAlien Aug 27, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Yeah, I believe religion shouldn't just be there to give excuses, it should be a basis for how to live life and treat others.
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~AAtheist Aug 28, 2012
That's fair, unfortunately I don't think religion could ever be just that. Its too easy to twist into a route to personal power.

Any religion can be twisted to be superficially similar to what it was before, but fundamentally completely different. Did you know that the stuka suicide bombers of WW2 were technically buddhists for example?
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~KittyTheNekoAlien Aug 28, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
People just seem to abuse it so much :( I guess because like the quote suggests, many people are afraid to stand on their own and have their own mind and actions, so they go and copy those of a religion without fully analyzing why they would believe them.
If more people would just have their own beliefs and stand up for them, maybe the problems with religions wouldn't be so bad.
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~AAtheist Sep 1, 2012
Absolutely.
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*MamaLucia Aug 24, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Amen! :w00t:
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*la---mer Aug 14, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
true
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