Is there an argument for the existence of God? The question of
whether there is a conclusive argument for the existence of God
has been debated throughout history, with exceedingly
intelligent people taking both sides of the dispute. In recent
times, arguments against the possibility of God’s existence have
taken on a militant spirit that accuses anyone daring to believe
in God as being delusional and irrational. Karl Marx asserted
that anyone believing in God must have a mental disorder that
caused invalid thinking. The psychiatrist Sigmund Freud wrote
that a person who believed in a Creator God was delusional and
only held those beliefs due to a “wish-fulfillment” factor that
produced what Freud considered to be an unjustifiable position.
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche bluntly said that faith
equates to not wanting to know what is true. The voices of these
three figures from history (along with others) are simply now
parroted by a new generation of atheists who claim that a belief
in God is intellectua