The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - What Sigmund Freud Missed About Christianity

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00:00:23.480 five-star review on your favorite podcast platform thanks a brief word about sigmund freud

00:00:30.920 who is in hell to the praise of god's glorious justice a wicked man a terrible man and a man

00:00:43.180 along with darwin and others who sought to disprove god these individuals carl marx would

00:00:49.780 be another. They recognized that the greatest strength and fabric of society was Christianity.

00:00:58.620 That had to be taken out if they were going to be able to control society. Sigmund Freud,

00:01:05.460 one of his arguments for atheism, one of his arguments against Christianity and against any

00:01:10.980 religion for that matter, was this. He said that believing in a deity, a God, was just a result of

00:01:19.360 primitive people that couldn't understand, but not just that they couldn't understand. It's not

00:01:24.920 just in regards to their knowledge, but primitive people who were powerless. And so what do you do

00:01:30.840 if there's a threat, right? Pestilence, a disease, a plague, or a storm, and you're powerless,

00:01:40.820 and you don't have the technology that we have today, right? You're living in the kind of house

00:01:45.400 that can just be blown over, right?

00:01:47.600 These kinds of natural disasters,

00:01:49.180 when they occur, you don't have modern medicine.

00:01:52.120 You don't have all this different technology

00:01:55.600 that would work as a bulwark

00:01:57.300 to protect you from the disaster.

00:01:59.780 And whenever a disaster does take place,

00:02:02.380 your life is threatened.

00:02:04.740 You've seen disasters in the past

00:02:06.220 and many people that you love have been casualties.

00:02:09.520 Well, what do you do in a time period like that

00:02:11.920 where you have few defenses against nature, natural disasters. Well, if the threat that

00:02:20.520 you're experiencing is a person, a person can be appeased. Not always. The person can be cruel.

00:02:28.480 They could be someone who refuses to engage in dialogue and diplomatic attempts. But an army

00:02:36.280 has a general. You can speak to him. There can be conditions for surrender, right? Even an

00:02:42.140 individual person, you know, who's trying to mug you in a back alley, God forbid, you can still

00:02:46.960 say, please don't hurt me. I'll give you what, whatever you want. You can, you can appeal to

00:02:54.780 some kind of, as wicked as they might be, some kind of human nature underneath. You can reach

00:03:01.160 for some level of compassion, but how do you plead with a storm? How do you plead with the bubonic

00:03:10.320 plague? Well, you don't. You can't. And so what people did in manufacturing religion

00:03:21.780 out of nothing, according to Sigmund Freud, was they tried to take nature's greatest disasters

00:03:29.680 and personify them by placing within them a deity, right?

00:03:35.820 Especially when it comes to Norse mythology or Roman Greco mythology,

00:03:41.220 these kinds of things.

00:03:41.800 You have different gods for different, you know, the ocean, Poseidon, you know,

00:03:48.580 or a god of this storm over here, Thor, with lightning.

00:03:54.100 And now we have a god.

00:03:55.760 now the storm, just like an army or a mugger, we can cry out to someone. We're not stronger than

00:04:03.080 the storm, but maybe we can satiate the personified storm, the deity within the storm. We can make

00:04:09.840 some kind of sacrifice, some kind of plea bargain so that the storm would relent and not destroy

00:04:16.420 us. Now, the reason why Sigmund Freud fails in this argumentation is because it does not account

00:04:24.700 for the triune God. And the reason it doesn't account for the one God who truly exists is

00:04:31.540 because what we see throughout scripture time and time again, is that when people encounter

00:04:37.240 some kind of judgment of the Lord, like a storm, and then realize that Yahweh is the God behind it,

00:04:44.700 they don't go from being afraid to being calmed, but from being afraid to being even more afraid.

00:04:51.940 see if that was the psychology if that was the goal was put a god within the storm so that we

00:05:00.360 don't have to be as afraid of the storm well then what you would want to do is put a god within the

00:05:06.060 storm that's not scary but the christian god is the lord is to be feared and even jesus says do

00:05:16.760 not fear those who can harm the body, kill, destroy the body, but after doing so can do nothing more,

00:05:22.220 but rather fear God in heaven, who after destroying the body also has the power

00:05:27.500 to condemn your soul to hell. He is a fearful God. He is the living God, terrible in his judgments.

00:05:39.580 And this is precisely what the Phoenician sailors experienced. It's indicative, it relates to what

00:05:45.200 the disciples with Jesus experienced. Jonah is sleeping on the bottom of the ship. Jesus, likewise,

00:05:50.740 is asleep on the boat. The disciples wake him up and say, do you not care that we are perishing?

00:05:55.600 They are afraid. But in that gospel narrative, when Jesus speaks and stills the storm,

00:06:01.980 even with the disciples, the same concept is there. It says that the disciples go from being

00:06:07.060 afraid of the storm to being exceedingly afraid of the one who has authority over the wind and waves.

00:06:15.080 Jesus scares them more than the storm does.

00:06:18.700 So too, Yahweh scares these Phoenician sailors

00:06:21.780 more than the storm does.

00:06:24.440 So it's a common or classic L for Sigmund Freud.

00:06:29.000 That shouldn't come as a surprise.

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The NXR Podcast - October 23, 2023

DAILY TRUTH - What Sigmund Freud Missed About Christianity

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