A Question for only (Atheist)?

Question

Can tell you tell me about your Relationships with your father growing up?
Were you raised in a stable home? Was your father there for you growing up?
Did you two get along? And if not what were your conflicts?
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Answer 1

my father died when I was four weeks old. I have released this personal info to you because I am wondering where you are going to go with this, plus what it has to do with my faith.

I have starred this question in the hope that those in my Q&A will find it. I am very interested inwhere you are leading us

Answer 2

I am an atheist, but forget telling people who are not atheists not to answer. It's better if you say something like "If you are not atheist, please tell me what your religion is." Then you can at least sort out the answers you want from the ones you do not.

My father liked to pretend he was a devil, twisting his eyebrows up in a curl and leering rather like Jack Nicholson in "The Shining." When I was very young, he was like a big kid. In fact, my mother used to say she had three children: 2 little girls and one big boy. Things got stickier when my sister and I approached puberty. To put it delicately, Daddy did not believe in the incest taboo. I told him that if he did not leave me alone, I would kill him, and no jury in the world would call it anything other than self defense. But I found out years later that my sister submitted, as much as anything to get a secret to hold over his head so she could get out of housework and get various privileges. I also found out (this was after Daddy was locked up in a mental hospital) that my mother had known, but didn't believe she could do anything about it.

When I was 13 or so, my father was committed to a state mental hospital, and after that I only saw him when visiting in the hospital. They pumped him full of Thorazine, and he was a walking zombie. In the 1980s, when I called him to tell him that Mother had died, all he said was, "Well, I never loved your mother anyway."

No, I did not have a good father.

Answer 3

I come from a very stable home.
My father gave me a lot of room, but was still an authority. He was/is always there for me.
I think we get along well. Of cause there can be conflicts, but that's just because he's so stubborn;)

Answer 4

I was lucky enough to be raised in a household with two wonderful, loving parents. They've been married for 40 years, and are still in love.
I have (and always had) a great relationship with my Dad. He's always been my hero. As a child, my parents were appropriately strict, (but not too strict), and loving. Now, as an adult, they're my best friends, and are so involved with playing the role of grandma and grandpa to my kids.
I love my Dad.

Answer 5

I had no relationship with my father growing up? I was raised in a single parent family mostly with my father coming and going when he pleased. He wasn't there when I was born for about a year. Mum let him back for a short while and they produced my little brother. And this is how it went on for years. He got drunk, belted her, Mum kicked him out. He came back full of promises only to reneg, produce another child, then Mum kick him out until next time. That's it.

Answer 6

My father has always been the loving and nurturing side of the household. My mother has been emotionally unavailable. So...do Atheists have a loving father and therefore don't need God? Or were you hoping we all had issues with our fathers and therefore had issues with God? Most boys in the US do rebel against their fathers, but do they represent a disproportionate number of Atheists? Hmmm.
However, no question on R&S will apply scientifically to the general population - the people on R&S and even on YA are all a sub-section of the population in general.
But your theory - whichever you are hoping to prove - is amusing. Once you have figured out the "one big psychological reason for Atheism", will you be moving on to homosexuality or evangelical Christianity or bigotry?

Answer 7

i know your question says this is for athiests only, but your question gives me a feeling that you are seeing if having your father in your life effects your religion. well my father was in my life for a while (i would visit him in the summers, but thats about it) but he screwed up big time, and now i dont trust him enough to go visit him again. so my dad wasnt in the picture mutch (even though my mom got married when i was 5, so i do have a step dad).

i am not athesist, i am a christian

Answer 8

I grew up with a step father, who is no longer such.

I've only known my real father for 5 years.

P.S. I was very religious growing up.

Answer 9

I'm an agnostic with parents who have been married 40 years and dress alike - they're so in love I worry about whichever one lives longer! they are church elders, BTW. Both of them are wonderful people.

Answer 10

My father and I had an excellent relationship growing up and we still do. I love him very much. :o)