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Freud |  | Author: R. J. Rushdoony
Creators: Mark Rushdoony, R.J. Rushdoony
Publisher: Ross House
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Edition: 2ND
Pages: 74
ISBN: 1879998475
EAN: 9781879998476
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Why read a book on Freud?
As long as man views guilt as a problem for science instead of religion, the influence of Sigmund Freud will remain lurking in the mind of modern man. Freud was an architect of the modern mind and unholy builder like Marx and Darwin. Freud was also a hater of religion specifically the Bible and its absolute standard. He believed Biblical theism to be the delusion which compounded mans central problem of guilt. Freud wanted man to accept his moral predicament without reference to sin.
Freuds motivation for psychoanalysis became the removal of guilt by self-acceptance. He posited that mans moral predicament was inescapable and guilt inevitable, unless man could come to terms with his moral prison. This ideology has spawned the new morality of our time where both the homosexual and Christian must accept and embrace an immoral lifestyle. It is now called mental sickness for the homosexual to condemn himself, and evidence of mental illness for anyone to condemn the homosexual.
This is a destructive ethic, consistent with Freud seeing himself as a destroyer. His purpose was to disassociate guilt from sin, making it a problem for science rather than faith. Through this revision Freud hoped to destroy religion.
But the removal of Christian religious influence leads only to tyranny as the Christian God is replaced by the dictatorial rule of the scientific elite. Totalitarianism assumes the place of the Triune God as scientific rulers seek control over every facet of life. Freuds therapy was scientific socialism: a syncretism of the scientific and political agendas of modern man.
This analysis of one of historys most insidious players will provide insight into the modern rush to abolish Christianity and Biblical thought.
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 Lay readers will find it heavy going January 21, 2007
Christian Book Previews.com
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Many Christians are extremely dubious of the teachings and research findings of Sigmund Freud. There is some validity in this, in that Freud was a Jew who had no use for Jesus and no appreciation of religion of any kind. Also, his early career was marked by major failures, not the least of which was believing that by having patients use heavy doses of cocaine, they could free their minds of emotional burdens. Obviously, this led to far more problems than solutions.
In this 2006 reprinted version of Freud by R. J. Rushdoony, with a new guest preface by his son Mark R. Rushdoony, the analysis of Freud's approach to solving man's problems is presented in light of the Bible's approach. Freud, for example, asserted that man was burdened with a huge natural weight of guilt. Man was guilty about failed love relationships, failed work ethic, failed parental care, and failed life fulfillment. The problem was, Freud offered no solutions other than to recognize this guilt, accept it, and try to move on. Conversely, the Bible says that yes, man is guilty of many evil deeds, and these are called "sins." By accepting Christ as Savior and by appealing to Him to forgive sins, man can be cleansed and become a "new creature." And there is where the difference lies. Freud has man stay his old creature and just try to cope with it, whereas Christ puts man's former self away and redeems him.
Although only 75 pages long, this little book is content heavy even to the point of being sluggish. A great deal of time is spent on Freud's obsession with mankind's wrestling match with sexual desires and societal limitations. The Bible gives many examples of man's sexual depravity, ranging from David's affair with Bathsheba to the judgment of the prostitute who was brought before Jesus. In each instance, there was judgment, repentance, forgiveness, and a new way of life. However, with Freud, there is scientific analysis of behavior, followed by incarceration in an institution or jail, followed by hope that the individual will be self-restraining in the future (good luck on that one).
The publication of this book was funded by a research organization started by Rushdoony called Chalcedon Ministries. As such, this is a self-published, limited edition book aimed at a target market of select readers interested in contrasting the philosophy and psychology of mankind with the theology and salvation message of Christ. Lay readers will find it heavy going, so be forewarned. - Dr. Dennis E. Hensley, Christian Book Previews.com
 nonsense in academic guise January 29, 2007
Dr. Wayne (Columbia, MO United States)
2 out of 13 found this review helpful
This author obviously does not understand either Freud or the Bible. Although Freud did refer to religion as a collective delusion. it is the paranoia of the author who sees this as an attempt to destroy religion and the Bible. I think it was Freud's hope that people would soon outgrow their need for theistic religion, which is merely a thinly disguised form of ancestor worship (God represents a collective of our greatgrandparents).
Karl Marx, an even greater genius than Freud, referred to religion as the opiate of the people. He was correct to the extent that religion has been misused to keep people down through violence (the inquisition) or in their place by promising "Pie in the sky bye and bye". Jesus was about empowering the powerless, not establishing an authoritarian institution, which the church quickly became under Constintine, and continues to be today. Jesus was not other worldly, he prayed, "...Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven..."
Marx's father was a rabbi, and one can see the religious influence in his philosophy. For example, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need", is very religious in tone and was praqcticed by the apostles (see Acts). Marx's mistake was in turning communism into a revolutionary and dictatorial movement (his analysis of capitalism was accurate). Socialism, on the other hand, is democratic and evolutionary by definition. Socialist principles such as the worth of the individual, and true religious principles such as compassion, have much in common. The auuthor obviously does not recognize the fact that it is Dominionism not socialism which violates the fundamental precepts of religion. Neither does the author understand that theology and science are two very different metaphors for ultimate reality. Mixing these only leads to confusion; as Paul said, "Now we see as through a glass, darkly". Both of these metaphors have much to say about reality, but their methods are very different, the one being based on devine revelation (a form of intuition), the other on empiricism. Ultimately, we hope they will not contradict one another, however, we obviously have not progressed far enough in either field for this to be true currently. This author is not the one to surmount this difficulty for us.
Using scientific method, Darwin, another great genius, provided us with an explaination for the evolution of species. The writers of the Jewish Bible were not scientists. They thought the world was flat, the Sun revolves around the Earth, etc. They even stated that light was created on the first day and the Sun not until the fourth, obviously not understanding that our light comes from the Sun. But scientific explaination and history were not their purposes. They were engaged in creating a national epic, a mythology if you will, to provide their people with a basis for solidarity. If you want to believe it literaly, be my guest. As Adrian Rogers likes to say, "This is America. You have the right to be wrong", but you will not come closer to the truth by doing so.
By the way, scientists make the same mistake when they take their own metaphor literaly rather than as a proxy for reality.
The author expresses his concern that psychoanalysis may lead to socialist totalitarianism (an oxymoron; see above). How he manages to deny the fact that it is Dominionism that is totalitarian is probably best explained by his paranoia. The psychological mechanism of paranoia is projection, the author sees his own thoughts and feelings in others while keeping them repressed from his own consciousness.
For more on religious authoritarianism and totalitarianism, there are Chris Hedges' book, American Fascists, and Kevin Phillips' book, American Theocracy, among many others.
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