First of all, Freud and Jung saw religion as a product of the psyche since “(b)oth were committed to advancing a new framework for explaining human behavior, one that pictured humans in terms of the relation between a conscious but fragile ego and the unconscious” (Paden 48). In their teachings, humans are not only minds but also psychological beings with defensive and neurotic egos who may choose to suppress emotions only to be discovered with the art of psychoanalysis. Furthermore, Jung and Freud view religion as “fragments of one’s unresolved childhood memories (and)…positive mediators between the ego and a deeper part of the self” (Paden 49). In this way, the idea of the psyche is all encompassing; religious thought does not tell us what