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Atheism and immaturity (view source)
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The popular [[YouTube]] [[Christianity|Christian]] [[Shockofgod]] received many hostile responses from YouTube atheists when he asked atheists for proof and evidence that atheism is true and they could not provide any.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjS__cWr0Y0 The question that is causing atheists to leave atheism]</ref>
The popular [[YouTube]] [[Christianity|Christian]] [[Shockofgod]] received many hostile responses from YouTube atheists when he asked atheists for proof and evidence that atheism is true and they could not provide any.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjS__cWr0Y0 The question that is causing atheists to leave atheism]</ref>
== Paul Vitz and the psychology of atheism ==
It is often argued that a troubled/non-existent relationship with a father may influence one of the causes of atheism.<ref>http://www.leaderu.com/truth/1truth12.html</ref> Dr. Paul Vitz wrote a book entitled ''Faith of the Fatherless'' in which he points out that after studying the lives of more than a dozen leading atheists he found that a large majority of them had a father who was present but weak, present but abusive, or absent.<ref>Vitz, Paul, [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/vitz.txt The Psychology of Atheism], September 24, 1997 (lecture notes taken by an audience member).</ref><ref>Anders, Kerby, [http://www.probe.org/content/view/36/91/ Atheists and Their Fathers] (Probe Ministries)</ref> Dr. Vitz also examined the lives of prominent theists who were contemporaneous to their atheist counterparts and from the same culture and in every instance these prominent theists had a good relationship with his father.<ref>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/vitz.txt</ref> Dr. Vitz has also stated other common factors he observed in the leading atheists he profiled: they were all intelligent and arrogant.<ref>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/vitz.txt</ref>
== See also ==
== See also ==