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The [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]] [[True Free Thinker|Mariano Grinbank]] concurs in his essay ''The Argument for Atheism from Immaturity'' and writes:
 
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{{cquote|It is widely known that some atheists rejected God in their childhood, based on child like reasons, have not matured beyond these childish notions and thus, maintain childish-emotional reactions toward the idea of God.<ref>[http://www.truefreethinker.com/articles/argument-atheism-immaturity]</ref>}}
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{{cquote|It is widely known that some atheists rejected [[God]] in their childhood, based on child like reasons, have not matured beyond these childish notions and thus, maintain childish-emotional reactions toward the idea of God.<ref>[http://www.truefreethinker.com/articles/argument-atheism-immaturity]</ref>}}
  
 
In the [[United States]], approximately 70% of individuals raised by atheist parents abandon their [[atheism]] (For more information please see: [[Atheism has a lower retention rate compared to other worldviews]]).<ref>http://www.christianpost.com/news/study-atheists-have-lowest-retention-rate-compared-to-religious-groups-78029/ Study: Atheists Have Lowest 'Retention Rate' Compared to Religious Groups</ref>  
 
In the [[United States]], approximately 70% of individuals raised by atheist parents abandon their [[atheism]] (For more information please see: [[Atheism has a lower retention rate compared to other worldviews]]).<ref>http://www.christianpost.com/news/study-atheists-have-lowest-retention-rate-compared-to-religious-groups-78029/ Study: Atheists Have Lowest 'Retention Rate' Compared to Religious Groups</ref>  

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In 2012, a Georgetown University study was published indicating that only about 30 percent of those who grow up in an atheist household remain atheists as adults.[1]

Vox Day declared:

“ ...the age at which most people become atheists indicates that it is almost never an intellectual decision, but an emotional one. (This is why most self-identified atheists are angry, bitter, and immature. The anger, bitterness, and immaturity are usually the cause of the atheism, they are not, as many Christians erroneously suppose, the effects.)[2] ”

The Christian apologist Mariano Grinbank concurs in his essay The Argument for Atheism from Immaturity and writes:

“ It is widely known that some atheists rejected God in their childhood, based on child like reasons, have not matured beyond these childish notions and thus, maintain childish-emotional reactions toward the idea of God.[3] ”

In the United States, approximately 70% of individuals raised by atheist parents abandon their atheism (For more information please see: Atheism has a lower retention rate compared to other worldviews).[4]

The popular YouTube 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.[5]

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.[6] 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.[7][8] 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.[9] Dr. Vitz has also stated other common factors he observed in the leading atheists he profiled: they were all intelligent and arrogant.[10]

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.christianpost.com/news/study-atheists-have-lowest-retention-rate-compared-to-religious-groups-78029/ Study: Atheists Have Lowest 'Retention Rate' Compared to Religious Groups
  2. ↑ Answering an atheist's question
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ http://www.christianpost.com/news/study-atheists-have-lowest-retention-rate-compared-to-religious-groups-78029/ Study: Atheists Have Lowest 'Retention Rate' Compared to Religious Groups
  5. ↑ The question that is causing atheists to leave atheism
  6. ↑ http://www.leaderu.com/truth/1truth12.html
  7. ↑ Vitz, Paul, The Psychology of Atheism, September 24, 1997 (lecture notes taken by an audience member).
  8. ↑ Anders, Kerby, Atheists and Their Fathers (Probe Ministries)
  9. ↑ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/vitz.txt
  10. ↑ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/vitz.txt
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