Religion: Psychiatry & Faith

"I thank Thee, O Lord, that my Freudian adviser has told me there is no such thing as guilt, that sin is a myth, and that Thou, O Father, art only a projection of my father complex ... Oh, I thank Thee that I am not like the rest of men, those nasty people, such as the Christian there in the back of the temple, who thinks that he is a sinner, that his soul stands in need of grace ... I may have an Oedipus complex, but I have no sin."

Thus Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen paraphrases the parable of the...

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