Just nod if you can hear me. Roger Waters Many, in these final moments of the twentieth century, believe that religion itself is a non-event, a vestigial irrelevance, an opiate of the people.
Psyche means the soul or the spirit .
As spiritual matters are no longer the focus of modern psyschology, some believe that psychology is a poor lens with which to examine humankind's understanding of spiritual matters. Another semantic objection argues that religion itself is not a valid subject because it is based on a false assessment of reality and therefore study or discussion of human behavior about God is meaningless because religious statements themselves are meaningless. Psychology, as the study of behavior, does not need to study a meta subject such as religion because such higher order subjects as art, music, poetry, and religion are more than adequately explained within such existing psychological constructs as child development, motivation theory, attitude formation, and psychopathologiy. It is not Psychology of Religion's place to verify or disprove, were it possible, the existence of a religious object. Theology and philosophy address that matter.