God Arises
Review
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Psychologists are right in holding that sometimes
ideas are repressed in our minds during childhood,
which erupt at a later stage in an extra-ordinary
form. But to infer that it is this very characteristic in
humans which has given birth to religion is to jump
to wrong conclusions. It is a misinterpretation, if not
an actual distortion of a perfectly ordinary fact. It is
as if observing a potter designing an image of clay, I
deduce that it must be he who has created human
beings. Image making and the creation of the
human body differ from each other in so qualitative
a fashion that to draw any parallels with God’s
creativity would be utterly preposterous. It is only
minds which see fit to make such analogies which
look upon religion as a result of the inchoate
ramblings of mentally deranged individuals.
It is a general weakness of modern thought that it
jumps to extraordinary conclusions on the basis of
facts which carry no weight from the logical point
of view. An emotionally disturbed individual may
babble abnormally under the influence of thoughts
repressed in the unconscious, but how does this
prove that the knowledge of the universe revealed
to the prophets is also a ‘babbling’ of the same
