Symbolic Language in religious doctrines
the mass of humanity can’t recognize them as truth.
The case is similar to what happens when we tell a child that newborn babies are brought by the stork.
Here ,too,we are telling the truth in symbolic clothing, for we know what the large Bird signifies.
But the child does not know it.He here only the distorted part of what we say and feel that he has been deceived, and we know we know how often is distrust of the grown ups and his refractoriness actually take their start from this impression.We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic dusguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.
“The TRUTH CONTAINED in religious doctrines are often all so distorted and systematically disguised__Sigmund Freud,
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