 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
The psycho-analysts however, are certainly right in tracing the origins of a man’s sense of sin to the very early years of childhood. In those years parental precepts are unquestioningly accepted, but impulse is too strong for them to be always obeyed; hence experience of disapproval is frequent and painful, and so is temptation which may be successfully resisted. In later life the parental disapproval may come to be almost forgotten, and yet there may still be a feeling of something painful associated with certain kinds of acts, and this feeling may translate itself into the conviction that such acts are sinful.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 7：sin
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