When Paul Vitz, a psychologist, wrote this book, he was explaining paternal shortcomings, emancipation from paternal authority, and traumatic experiences during adolescence, based on the stories of famous atheists such as Frederick Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, David Hume, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Serters, and Sigmund Freud.
First of all, in terms of emancipation from the authority of the father, I believe that the father's duty is to provide a decent life for his son and to respect the orientation of the son, and the theory of projection that Paul Fitz spoke about contradicts Sigmund Freud's analysis.
Second of all, regarding the traumatic experiences of adolescence, it is these experiences that make us think deeply
Whether there is parental negligence or indulgence, there will be atheism, and atheism is not a mental illness and has nothing to do with it, as some claim!!!!
Therefore, what do you think?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.My father was the best father ever and my best friend all my life until he was gone . Actually he is still my best friend ♥️
He was smart , he was kind , he was supportive and he was very atheist him self . My sister and my self both studied religions and both have 0 respect and 0 need for any . We are both atheists and it feels natural and nothing to talk about it . Until . Until religion all around us in every day life / day / laws / interactions, becomes a pest and a headache .
Pralina1
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Mar 20, 2021
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So, if you had an idyllic paternal relationship you will be a gawd-worshipper, and we atheists are prima facie damaged goods? Get A Grip!
AnneWimsey
Level 9
Mar 19, 2021
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@Detached ummm,I read All of Feud in my early teens and that is Such a simplification. What he was really trying to say was the "hysterical" young women he mostly treated had been molested by tbeir fathers, but the medical establishment of the time squashed that (sadly true!) info...
Nothing about their religion or lack of it.....and pretty certain the girls would have Vastly Preferred an absent father......pretty sad you feel entitled to revise him.
Hm-mm, the book may tell me of the formative years of the lives of a few philosophers, of which professors of philosophy said nothing. I got a free sample for my Kindle, browsed it and saw its mention of defective fathers.
I searched on “Who is Paul C. Vitz?” He is a professor at Divine Mercy University. A religious college. This foreshadows trouble.
A search on DMU tells me its vision: “...to be an international center for scholarship and professional education dedicated to the study of the mind and soul grounded in an integral Catholic-Christian view of the human person. Maintaining the highest academic standards, the institution will educate new generations of professionals in psychology-related fields and open new areas of scholarship for theories that explore the relationship of the human psyche and Catholic-Christian theological, philosophical and anthropological principles.” SERIOUS TROUBLE.
In 1957, aided by personal trauma, I quit Catholicism. I now occasionally ask, “How did Catholicism so thoroughly enslave my grandfather Joe, my father John, and me?”
I will gather a few lines of Joe’s and John’s stories and return.
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Mar 19, 2021
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