Worldview: Sigmund Freud And C. S. Lewis

Throughout history people have been fighting over if God exists or not. Two of those people are named C.S. Lewis, who believed that God exists, and Sigmund Freud, who believed that God does not exist. According to Armand Nicholi, Freud and Lewis thought the question of God was the most important question in the world. Out of the two, one of them had a stronger case for his worldview. Despite Sigmund Freud for giving strong counterarguments against C.S. Lewis 's worldview, C.S. Lewis made the stronger case for his worldview because Chesterton influenced him, he questioned the New Testament, and figured so many people in his life believed in God. C.S. Lewis for most of his early life thought that God did not exist but then certain events led him to the worldview he hold until he died in 1963. Lewis had eleven factors go into his conversion to Christianity. Three of the factors were the most compelling evidence of why Lewis worldview is stronger than Freud’s. One of the major factors was when he started to question the New Testament. The specifically the part of the New Testament he questions is the gospels. He says that the Gospels could not be myths or legends because they lacked the artistic quality of talented writers. If they were not myths then they had to be true. The bible must be true if the Gospels are not myths. Another factor was G. K. Chesterton’s Everlasting Man. In the book, it states that none of the teachers in history ever claimed that they are God. If they are not God, then someone out there had to tell them what they knew. Someone that was all knowing had to give them the information they told people that came out to be true. The last important factor was the fact that most of the people in Lewis’s life believed in God. There had to be distinct reason why they believed in God, if that means that there is evidence …show more content…
Lewis had the strongest case for his worldview, it does not change my worldview. Lewis’s factors of converting to christianity was compelling and it did have me questioning my own faith, but it does not go about that fact I still believing in what I see. I have not seen or heard God. The bible might be true to the sense that Lewis talks about when he converted to Christianity but cannot fully accept the bible until I receive some kind of sign that God exists. This might be a result of my parents not taking me to church when I am younger or put me in religious school but it does not matter I still do not believe in …show more content…
Lewis both had different worldview. C.S. Lewis had the strongest case because the Gospels were not myths, people in his life had the spiritual worldview, and no teacher ever said they are God themselves. Sigmund Freud, even though had a strong case for his worldview, did not take into account that people can stop praying for awhile, people want hope, and people cannot prove that God does not exist. I still would not change my worldview despite that C.S. Lewis had the strongest case for his worldview. The debate between the worldviews might never be won but it does give something worth living