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A minority of mainstream religious followers truly reject their faith and deconvert. Apostates make up just 7% of deconversions from mainstream religion. However, 80% will withdraw and later return. [13] Generally there are two disengagement measures for the mainstream religious.
Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 – April 24, 1924 [1]) was an American psychologist and educator who earned the first doctorate in psychology awarded in the United States of America at Harvard College in the nineteenth century. His interests focused on human life span development and evolutionary theory.
In his 1950 book The Individual and His Religion, [20] Gordon Allport (1897–1967) illustrates how people may use religion in different ways. [21] He makes a distinction between Mature religion and Immature religion. Mature religious sentiment is how Allport characterized the person whose approach to religion is dynamic, open-minded, and able ...
G. Stanley Hall in his preface to the 1920 American translation wrote: These twenty-eight lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational. Freud sets forth with a frankness almost startling the difficulties and limitations of psychoanalysis , and also describes its main methods and results as only a master and originator of a new ...
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In the book's final essay, Mill explores a number of arguments for the existence of God, using a methodology based on evidence. He argues that religion should be "reviewed as a strictly scientific question" and should be tested in the same way that other questions in science are examined.
Religious responses to the problem of evil are concerned with reconciling the existence of evil and suffering with an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The problem of evil is acute for monotheistic religions such as Christianity , Islam , and Judaism whose religion is based on such a God.
Hume argues that a crude polytheism was the earliest religion of mankind and locates the origins of religion in emotion, particularly hope, fear, and the desire to control the future. He further argues that monotheism arises from competition between religions, as believers seek to distinguish their deities as superior to all rivals, magnifying ...