�MAN THE ANIMAL� Denigrating Religion

Infamous psychological �experts� of the 19th century dismissed religion and relegated man to the level of ape, setting the stage for the moral ruin of society:

In 1808 Johann Christian Reil first coined the word �psychiatry� which meant �doctoring of the soul��from psyche (soul, spirit) and iatros (doctor). Ironically, psychiatrists have long since abandoned any idea of helping the spirit or soul, instead concentrating exclusively on the brain.

Ivan Pavlov attempted to foist results from animal stimulus-response experiments upon the human field as �behavioral psychology.� His ideas greatly influenced psychology during the first half of the 20th century.

One of the most infamous religious antagonists, Viennese psychologist Sigmund Freud declared religion the �enemy� and spiritual belief as both superstition and the �universal obsessional neurosis.� He taught that knowledge takes a person away from religion, which he considered �obsolete.�

Originally an ordained minister, after G. Stanley Hall studied psychology at the University of Berlin in 1868, he went on to found genetic psychology�teaching that people are nothing more than a combination of chromosomes.

Psychologist William James, after studying under Wundt, wrote that religious leaders typically experience pathological behavior. James labeled the founder of the Quaker religion a psychopath for believing he was inspired by God.

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