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==Psychology of Atheism==

==Psychology of Atheism==

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 and found that a large majority of them had a father who was the following: present but weak; present but abusive, or a father who was absent.<ref>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/vitz.txt</ref><ref>http://www.probe.org/content/view/36/91/</ref>  As a control group, Dr. Vitz examined the lives well-known theists who were

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 and found that a large majority of them had a father who was the following: present but weak; present but abusive, or a father who was absent.<ref>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/vitz.txt</ref><ref>http://www.probe.org/content/view/36/91/</ref>  As a control group, Dr. Vitz examined the lives well-known theists who were

contemporaneous to their atheist counterparts and from the same

contemporaneous to their atheist counterparts and from the same

culture and in every instance each had a good relationship with his father.<ref>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/vitz.txt</ref>

culture and in every instance each had a good relationship with his father.<ref>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/vitz.txt</ref>

== Other Well Known Proponents of Atheism ==

== Other Well Known Proponents of Atheism ==

Prominent atheists and atheist schools of thought include:

Prominent atheists and atheist schools of thought include: