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Freud was hesitant to publish Moses and Monotheism…he knew it would anger the power structure. He wrote in the books preface that it wasn’t backlash from the Jews he was worried about. Freud knew his bombshell claims…(that Moses was an Egyptian prince and that the Jewish people had murdered him in cold blood)…would ignite outrage in the Jewish community. But that didn’t stop him. The real threat, the one that made him hesitate, was far more dangerous: the Catholic Church. In his own words from the Prefatory Notes: “I do not only think so, I know that this external danger will deter me from publishing the last part of my treatise on Moses. I have tried to remove this obstacle by telling myself that my fear is based on an over-estimation of my personal importance, and that the authorities would probably be quite indifferent to what I should have to say about Moses and the origin of monotheistic religions. Yet I do not feel sure that my judgement is correct. Psycho-analytic research is in any case the subject of suspicious attention from Catholicism. Such violent methods of suppression are by no means alien to the Catholic Church; she feels it rather as an intrusion into her privileges…” He wasn’t just paranoid. The Church had already crushed psychoanalytic ideas, and its influence could have destroyed his life’s work, ...(or even worse)… so he withheld the explosive part…the section that exposed the sacred origins of monotheism’s. His message was clear: yeah, the Jews might get offended, but Freud knew the Vatican held the real power.