Man’s Natural Inclination On Transcendent Beings and Projection Theories

Question 1

What are the 5 transcendental desires of man?

Answer 1

Desire for…

1. perfect knowledge / truth
2. perfect love
3. perfect justice / goodness
4. perfect beauty
5. perfect home / being

Question 2

• It reveals that we recognize the inadequacy of a partial answer
  -True satisfaction only occurs when a complete and perfect understanding has been achieved
• Man’s innate desire for a full and complete explanation
  It is man’s concious desire for perfect knowledge and complete truth

Answer 2

Man’s Desire for Perfect Knowledge / Truth

Question 3

• Man desires perfect and unconditional love

Our desire for perfect and unconditional love can only be met by the perfect love (God)

Answer 3

Man’s Desire for Perfect Love

Question 4

What happens when relationships do not fulfill our desire for perfect love?

Answer 4

It leads to frustration and possible declination in the relationship

Question 5

Why do we fall prey to such an obvious error?

Answer 5

Because our desire is for love to be perfect. Humans cannot satisfy each other’s desire for perfect love, no matte rhow hard we try

Question 6

• We expect that perfect justice ought to happen, if not, we feel profound and deep outrage

Answer 6

Man’s Desire for Perfect Justice / Goodness

Question 7

What is the effect when our expectations for perfect justice and goodness do not come to pass?

Answer 7

We bring outrage (extreme reaction of anger, etc.) and cynicism (belief that people are selfish and only want to help themselves)

Question 8

• Since it seems that the notion of perfect beauty cannot be obtained from a world of imperfect beauty, we are led to the realization that it’s origin arises out of perfect Beauty itself(God)

Answer 8

Man’s Desire for Perfect Beauty

Question 9

What is the positive result when we desire a perfectly beautiful ideal?

Answer 9

Continuous human striving for artistic, musical, and literary perfection

Question 10

What is the negative result when we desire a perfectly beautiful ideal?

Answer 10

We grow bored or frustrated with any imperfect manifestation of beauty

Question 11

• Man desires for perfect harmony and peace in our being and in our world

Answer 11

Man’s Desire for Perfect home / Being

Question 12

It is what theologians, saints, and mystics refer when our desire for perfect home is partially fulfilled

Answer 12

Joy, love, awe, unity, holiness, and/or peace

Question 13

What is projection theory?

Answer 13

It is a theoretical concept by those who do not believe in a personal God
[The conclusion is that it is psychological tendency to create a ‘god force’]

Question 14

Who was the famous german philosopher and atheist who said that God is nothing else than the illusory internalization of human hopes

Answer 14

Ludwig Feuerbach (1804 - 1872)
“The world is full of pain, frustration, anxiety and the awareness of his own finitude thus making man project a God who will answer his needs, shelter, stability and fulfillment, and hope”

Question 15

Who was the most influential socialist thinker and the creator of marxism who said that religion is an opium of the poor and oppressed?

Answer 15

Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
“Everything in the world is material. God is nothing but a projection of the poor and the oppressed”
“Man projects a place of consolation that will comfort them”

Question 16

Who was the proponent of psychoanalysis, an atheist, and scienctist who said that God is an illusion based on the infantile need for a perfect father figure

Answer 16

Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
“We are all victims of our childhood wherein we experienced frustrations that led us to conceive an image of a perfect father who is God”