Has modern man outgrown religion? Many thoughtful people believe this is so. They think that psychology and the social sciences have explained away religion and thus abolished our need for it. Probably without knowing it they have accepted the arguments of a number of atheist thinkers, especially these four:
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud (Religion arises out of guilt and the fear of nature.)
Karl MarxKarl Marx (Religion is used to keep the lower classes happy.)
Ludwig FeuerbachLudwig Feuerbach (Religion is only wish fulfillment.)
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche (Religion is rooted in man's weakness.)
But R.C. Sproul, with penetrating psychological analysis and scriptural insight, explains why their conclusions are not to be accepted blindly. He shows that atheists derive their unbelief from such psychological factors as fear of authority, fear of exposure, and fear of God's "otherness." He shows that there are as many psychological and sociological explanations for unbelief as for belief.
Here is clear, thought-provoking discussion for the believer who is troubled by doubts or who wants to respond intelligently to unbelievers. And it is for the unbeliever who has an open mind.
Robert Charles Sproul was an American Reformed theologian and ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America. He was the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries and could be heard daily on the Renewing Your Mind radio broadcast in the United States and internationally. Under Sproul's direction, Ligonier Ministries produced the Ligonier Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, which would eventually grow into the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, of which Sproul, alongside Norman Geisler, was one of the chief architects. Sproul has been described as "the greatest and most influential proponent of the recovery of Reformed theology in the last century."
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