Is faith just a psychological crutch?

This objection (popularized by Freud) is actually a logical fallacy called the genetic fallacy — explaining why someone might want a belief to be true says nothing about whether it is actually true or false.

Notice the argument cuts both ways: one could just as easily argue atheism is wish-fulfillment for someone who doesn't want to be morally accountable to a Creator. Wanting something to be true, or false, is simply irrelevant to whether it is.

The only way to actually evaluate whether Christianity is true is to examine the evidence directly — the historical case for the resurrection, the philosophical arguments for God's existence, and the internal coherence of the Bible's account of reality — rather than psychoanalyzing why someone might believe it.