The Century of Self

We, shamed to show our neighbor our lust and sin, throw our desperate anger into the big melting pots of art, entertainment, and, above all, religion.
While our brutish human reveals himself in all of the afor mentioned things, religion is the element most covered in our stains of projection. The religious mind is one that punishes and condemns all actions of the brute. Because we are made in our lord’s image, this transfers some sort of divinity to us and gives them the right to point the finger at us in shame. We look to religion to help us process these “evil” desires and a blanket answer to the question of why. We ask this question because of our desire to know causality, but we are too scared to look our answer in the face because this answer stares back at us from the mirror. Religion spoon feeds us the devil because the devil tempts us with all that our instinct would lunge at. Our self preservation is the sin of narcissism.
Because we look to religion to cover the open wound of the inner animal, we are left feeling unsatisfied in the end. To seek so desperately for an answer in the emptiness leaves one with a further feeling of loss and regret, still suffering from the fear of ourselves. What Freud calls for, and in truth must happen, is for the bandage to be ripped away and the wound allowed to heal on its own. “No mention has yet been made of what is perhaps the most important item in the psychical inventory of a civilization. This consist in its religious ideas in the wildest sense- in other words (which will be justified later) in its illusions.” -Freud