Relgion and Faith - Sigmund Freud - Atheism - New York Times

Relgion and Faith - Sigmund Freud - Atheism - New York Times:

"The ability to believe in an internal, invisible God vastly improves people’s capacity for abstraction. “The prohibition against making an image of God — the compulsion to worship a God whom one cannot see,” he says, meant that in Judaism “a sensory perception was given second place to what may be called an abstract idea — a triumph of intellectuality over sensuality.”"