Yup, and the people who responded to me were very polite. One of them mentioned a recent book which was interesting in light of our recent debate on corporal punishment of children:
>>>>>To: haqihana who wrote (29085)
From: DCF Wednesday, Jan 5, 2000 10:17 PM ET
Reply # 29088 of 29091
Hi haqi,
It is interesting you mentioned how people deal with stuff and their psyche.
Here is some interesting info that I read. I can link the article but you have to join or subscribe to their daily email(free)
In his new book, Faith of the Fatherless,
New York University psychology professor Paul
Vitz studied several well known men and women and here is a little of his finding:
1.. Friedrich Nietzsche, a philosopher
famous for saying "God is dead," lost his father when
he was just four years old.
2.The English writer Samuel Butler had a clergyman
father who brutally beat him.
3.Sigmund Freud despised his weak father, whom he
claimed was a pervert. Freud placed father hatred at
the center of his psychology
4. French existentialist John Paul Sartre lost his father
when he was a baby. His mother remarried when Sartre
was twelve, giving him a stepfather he resented. Not long
afterward Sartre concluded, "You know what? God
doesn't exist."
5.Joseph Stalin hated his father,who beat him unmercifully.
6.Adolf Hitler received terrible beatings from his
father, who died when Adolf was fourteen.
7. the father of China's Mao Zedong was a tyrant.
8.Madalyn Murray O'Hair,despised her father; her son William reports that O'Hair once tried to kill the old man with a butcher knife.
After studying these "major historical rejecters" of
God, Vitz found a weak, dead, or abusive fathers in every case."
Pretty good evidence huh? This is not to say every case goes that way, but I would bet a case can be made, what do you think?
dan<<<<< |
