8c Case Study 2: God as a Crutch

Case Study 2: God as a Crutch

One of the most familiar criticisms of Christianity is that it offers consolation to life’s losers. The only way such sad people can cope with life, it is argued, is by inventing a God who comforts them. Real people don’t need such spurious reassurance. They just get on with life. Religion is for the emotionally inadequate—a crutch for those who can’t cope with the reality of life and prefer to invent their own imagined world…