What Gustave Le Bon thinks about religion

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French social psychologist (1841 to 1931); author of The Crowd.

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1 dated position, c. 1895, in their own words. Our reading of what Gustave Le Bon has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. c. 1895

   Our readingIf the masses adopted atheism, it would take on the intolerant ardour of religion and soon become a cult

   Their wordsWere it possible to induce the masses to adopt atheism, this belief would exhibit all the intolerant ardour of a religious sentiment, and in its exterior forms would soon become a cult.

   ↗The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895; English translation, 1896)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book