Is God a Crutch?: Does Our Need for God Disprove Him?

by Ajit Krishna Dasa (Author)  

Format: Kindle Edition

Is God a crutch—an emotional projection created to cope with fear, weakness, or suffering?
This claim is often presented as a decisive refutation of belief in God. But does it actually work?

This book examines whether the accusation itself is coherent. To call belief in God a “crutch” is not merely to describe a psychological need; it is to make a judgment about what should or should not be believed. That judgment presupposes standards of reason, truth, and normativity—standards the accusation quietly relies on while denying their foundation.

Rather than defending God emotionally or dismissing suffering, this book exposes a deeper problem: the charge that God is a psychological crutch depends on the very moral and rational structure it seeks to undermine.

This is not a devotional appeal or a therapeutic reassurance. It is a philosophical examination of whether the critique of belief in God can even get off the ground without contradicting itself.