Elijah Halford’s Reviews > The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life > Status Update

But, CS Lewis says that the fact that we long for God to be real is proof he exists. “Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exist….If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world”. The quote continues and gets better but stupid Goodreads has a letter limit

Freud says that our mother is our first protector from the outside world, but it quickly changes to our father, who, according to Freud, is our strange superior power who we both fear and love in equal extremes. He suggests as we grow up, we create God as a wish fulfillment of sorts. Therefore we are not made in Gods image, he is made in our parents image… more specifically the “childhood image of our father”

I’m so excited to read more:)