Are You Living in Denial?

Atheism is a radical form of denial, because the faith calls for you to detach from certain goods that you consider essential to your personal happiness. Psychologists have done studies on atheists down through history, and have shown that its a very common pattern among atheists that there's an absent father figure in their lives. So if you want to start using psychology to explain why there are psych deficiencies in atheists or in believers, that cuts both ways.