Acknowledge Quote by Sigmund Freud

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

— Albert Ellis

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.

— Charles Eliot Norton

“Such immaturity will manifest itself in a lack of integrity. This lack will critically affect the child’s spiritual development; the less able a child…

— Gary D. Chapman

“Having an emotional intolerance for helplessness can lead to parental behaviors that target that helplessness in children and attack them for it... When their…

— Daniel Siegel

“...the naive forms of Christian moral motivation - bare threats of hell and the bribery of heaven - stunt moral growth by ensuring believers…

— Richard C. Carrier

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose…

— Sigmund Freud

However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings…

— Carl Jung

“If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism,…

— Richard Rohr

“When you say you love God, you are saying you love everything. Immature religion becomes an excuse for not loving a whole bunch of…

— Richard Rohr

The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated,

— Pablo Casals

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

— Adam Phillips