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Vitz criticizes [[liberalism]] and believes there is a link between fatherlessness and atheism, as he demonstrates in his book ''Faith of the Fatherless, the Psychology of [[Atheism]]'' (1999). The thesis of ''Faith of the Fatherless'' holds that famous believers—e.g., [[Blaise Pascal]], [[Edmund Burke]], [[Friedrich Schleiermacher]], [[Karl Barth]], and [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]]—had strong and loving fathers, whereas their atheistic counterparts—e.g., [[Thomas Hobbes]], [[Voltaire]], [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Mao Zedong]] and [[Adolf Hitler]]—all had fathers who were weak, unloving, or absent. Thus, philosophers, professors, and political tyrants who denounce God do so in order to relive traumatic childhood experiences and to subconsciously seek out help rather than to explore any sort of valid or respectable reasoning process.
Vitz criticizes [[liberalism]] and believes there is a link between fatherlessness and atheism, as he demonstrates in his book ''Faith of the Fatherless, the Psychology of [[Atheism]]'' (1999). The thesis of ''Faith of the Fatherless'' holds that famous believers—e.g., [[Blaise Pascal]], [[Edmund Burke]], [[Friedrich Schleiermacher]], [[Karl Barth]], and [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]]—had strong and loving fathers, whereas their atheistic counterparts—e.g., [[Thomas Hobbes]], [[Voltaire]], [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Mao Zedong]] and [[Adolf Hitler]]—all had fathers who were weak, unloving, or absent. Thus, philosophers, professors, and political tyrants who denounce God do so in order to relive traumatic childhood experiences and to subconsciously seek out help rather than to explore any sort of valid or respectable reasoning process.
In ''Modern art and modern science: the parallel analysis of vision'' (1984) Vitz and co-author Glimcher provide an illustrated guide showing how modern science has had an influence upon modern art. The book has been widely reviewed and well received.<ref>
In ''Modern art and modern science: the parallel analysis of vision'' (1984) Vitz and co-author Glimcher provide an illustrated guide showing how modern science—i.e., experimental psychology—has influenced modern art. The book has been widely reviewed and well received.<ref>
*Bornstein, M.H., ''The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism'',v. 43 (Spring 1985) p. 330
*Bornstein, M.H., ''The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism'',v. 43 (Spring 1985) p. 330
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