Over the past week in my Communication Ethics class (which I highly recommend as a class), we briefly reviewed a segment of the program, The Question of God; Sigmund Freud & C.S. Lewis with Dr. Armand Nicholi. I have quite enjoyed it because it has been an opportunity to address foundational issues, something I believe C.S. Lewis had a gift for articulating. The program basically contrasts God in light of the works of C.S. Lewis and the humanist Sigmund Freud. One such comparison is this:
“It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power—it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.” – Lewis
“It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the purely human origins of the regulations and precepts of civilization.” – Freud
It is an amazing comparison. Of course in my mind one view stands heads and shoulders above the rest, yet this program in ways crystallizes the differences between a believe in God and disbelief in God.
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