What about Freud? “Freud’s notion that religion is wish fulfillment can be turned against his own theory,” Egnor said. “In fact, it is much more plausible that atheism, rather than Christianity, is a form of wish fulfillment. For if there is no God, then no one is watching, there is no moral accountability, and you can do what you want (as long as you can get away with it).” As Polish poet Czesław Miłosz observes, there is great relief in “a belief in nothingness after death—the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.”
