Shambach On Religion

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The first chapter is about possible reasons why humans have felt the need to create religion, according to Freud, as humans became separate from wild animals, they felt the need to look into their past and attempt to discover their collective past and to predict where they will be in the future.
The purpose of civilization which is to control nature and gather its resources for human purposes and the rules which are used to control human affairs, especially the distribution of wealth amongst its citizens. One of the goals of civilization is to control the majority of the population from doing too much harm to the environment when attempting to increase their own wealth, these goals are made by a minority of the population

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