are thought that there is no almighty and all just God, no divine world order and no future life, they will feel exempt from all obligation to obey the precepts of civilization”(pg.44). He is trying to say that because we are so weak and powerless we cannot control the superior forces of nature. There will be chaos without it.Freud is trying to change our reality by saying that religion keeps us ignorant. It is constantly reinforcing us how powerless we are. It doesn’t make us more happy than we are without religion, it also doesn’t make us more mortal. “It is doubtful whether men were in general happier at a time when religious doctrines held unrestricted sway; more mortal they certainly were not”(pg.48). He is attempting to say that we should get rid of religion because it makes us ignorant.According to Freud, “grandfathers” and “grandmothers” are illusions. They were brought on by villagers because there was starvation. People needed to believe in the grandparents who send down the medicine bundle, because people needed hope and something to believe in. “Grandfarents and grandmothers of the Indians, took council and decided to give him a mighty charm that he might pass on to the people to help and save them”(pg.145). In Freudian perspective, the villagers need to believe that the grandparents gave this medicine bundle to Me’napus in order to cope with their reality of starvation.In his perspective, Freud says that in the original myth grandparents send Me’napus with powers, according to the religious men. The only power here is that divine beings believe that the villagers were weak and helpless.“Only men of great power may have it/ women must never use or touch the bag”(pg.147). According to Freud, divine beings wanted only men of great power like Me’napus to handle the medicine bundle because they believe that regular human beings were...
