Status Updates From The Spiritual Life Of Child...

Brilliant:

"A child who had yet to utter a sound, a girl with long blonde hair, wide brown eyes, and an expressive face, now joined us with a big surprise question: 'How do you know if God is happy?'
No one said anything... These children weren't withholding comment out of shyness, apprehension, suspicion, animosity; they were really at work thinking about how to answer that question."

"Freud considers God and religion a wishful childish illusion. He wrote asking mankind renounce it. I must disagree. Reality and illusion are not contradictory terms. Reality cannot occur without that specifically human transitional space for play and illusion… asking a mature, functioning individual to denounce his God would be to ask Freud to denounce his "illusory" promise of what psychoanalysis can do..."