and be promiscuous. If that assumption is correct, then his theory that religion is helping to prohibit these impulses, can have

some merit. However, since it is impossible to ascertain the nature of man, it is impossible to determine whether religion is

actually helping to prevent these impulses. Freud claims that moral prohibitions would not be obeyed by a majority of people if

there were not external coercions, but there are many people who are not religious and yet do not murder or have sex with

anyone they want. Thus, seems unlikely that religion alone could help to renounce these impulses. Freud, of course, would say

that other things can serve as sublimation for the sexual urges, but this theory cannot be tested because you can never find a

person who is free of every thing which might be seen as sublimation.

Like Durkheim, Freud saw religion as originating in the realization that there is a

force greater than the individual. Howeve

even Freud could know if he was correct in his assumptions.

to believe his theories or not. It is like a trial in which one person's word is set up against another person's. But in this case, not

overdecisiveness caused by not letting the other viewpoint into the discussion, I think the best explanation for this method of

now, explaining earthquakes and tornadoes as acts of the gods. In fact, Freud claims that as people become more educated

questions, not does he state who his opponents are. While Freud claims he uses this method to avoid uncertainty and

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