In this video I have a go at answering the question “Is the hope of heaven psychological escapism”? I begin by introducing the idea, and then suggest three points for how to respond to this question when it is levelled as an accusation accusation against Christianity:
- The question is a “Freudian Slip”
- Not all escapism is bad
- Challenge the premise
- Paul C. Vitz, Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism
- C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
- Randy Alcorn, Heaven
- Joe Puckett Jr., The Apologetics of Joy: A Case for the Existence of God from C. S. Lewis’s Argument from Desire
