Yes according to Coral Ridge Ministries. Watch, try not to laugh and lets pick this apart together.
Additionally, perhaps you would like to take this poll. If we can get more than six responses we will have a larger sample size of atheists than the good doctor did to draw his conclusions.
Loading ...Related posts:
- What should Australian Atheists be doing in 2010? With news that the tickets to the final day of...
- The New Poll feature As some readers are no doubt aware Google has realeased...
- If you see Darwin on the Road… Where Zen meets Darwin. Please discuss or not. There...
Note also that this video is attempting to scare Christian fathers into be good fathers to their children. If you are a bad father then your child will become an atheist. How odd that a ministry should resort to fear to motivate people:)
Lets hope the poll is not reverse pharyngulated
interesting my father was not in my life cause of drug abuse and the fact he was not in my life i tried to pull my self closer to god…. that's kinda when i realized there was no god
Thanks for commenting. I think the Dr in the video is drawing shaky conclusions from a very small sample size. I just wanted to show by a quick poll how ridiculous his conclusion was
My father is catholic and we get on like a house on fire, always have.
Strange. I thought a bad father/child relationship led to Teh Gay.
maybe they meant to say gay atheists….hangon that invalidates their argument
The poll offers no past tense for a good relationship with a dead father when he was alive. I therefore chose the first option, since I had a relationship was good when he lived, but there was no other temporally or grammatically appropriate option. By the way, my father was an agnostic who embraced the idea of some sort of supreme being when he was dying. I don't think he looked forward to some kind of eternal and blissful union with this entity, which I am sure he would have thought of as appallingly boring.
Thanks for posting Eric. Admittedly the poll construction is poor
cooked up in half a minute. That being said I think it is still more valid than the sample used by the Dr referred to in the coral ridge video.
Like Eric I had to choose the first option even though my Dad's dead. Additionally I didn't have a particularly good or bad relationship with my Dad and left home at 16 and moved around the country so didn't really get to know him all that well. But overall I'd say it was a good relationship, and I'm an atheist.
correction: …. I had a relationship that was good when he lived ….
Okay, THAT was funny.
My sisters are religious but I'm atheist. Explain THAT. My dad was a horrendous father figure and husband.
Ah but Tina maybe it was a relationship with you mother or you great aunt twice removed:D
"when you run into an atheist you're often running into somebody who's had a terrible relationship with his father OR SOMEBODY ELSE WHO REPRESENTED THE CHURCH."
When he tossed that in, of course you're going to have more positive hits.
Many people will take this video seriously and lots of dads will be guilt-tripped into trying to be better fathers. The ones who are guilt-tripped will probably be those who are already good fathers. The shitty fathers – the ones who presumably need to hear this message and change their ways – probably won't be motivated to change by a 3-minute video. They probably need at least a 5-minute video and a couple of sessions with a waterboard.
…and if that's the case, then this video is just an exercise in furthering bigotry. Substitute communist for atheist and we are back in the 1950's
Religious fail tards passing the fail buck.
Thanks to everyone who has responded so far. I am now wishing that I had spent more time in constructing the poll. I think we have made a point through – that there is not even a strong correlation between atheism and bad fathering.
"Deffective"? I believe that the kids these days would call that "spelling fail", which itself is a grammar fail.
Cheers
Hurrah!
I am a bastard child. Where do I fit? (rhetorically)
So, alcoholic, non-existent father AND a lesbian mother, does that mean I'm totally screwed???
As far as the clip, I found it odd that the host mentioned that atheists have learned to "suppress and deny the evidence we see all around us". Huh? I thought it was the religious folk that suppressed and denied the evidence around us. I mean seriously, aren't suppression and denial the key to any good religion?
Clearly I need to broaden the choices available in my poll.
But yes I did fid there was a wealth of unsubstatiated claims made by both the host and the doctor(if indeed he is a real doctor). Poor research and poor prosletyzing(sp?)