Originally published in A.J.A. Quarterly, 2:2 (1956), pp. 7-13. Most people know of the Freudian attack on religious belief. In his Totem and Taboo (1913), The Future f an Illusion (1928), and Moses and Monotheism (1939), Freud claims that religion is an illusion, that it is a lingering childish desire for a father substitute, the fruit…