Dr. J. Budziszewski

Yeah.

Yeah.

I had a, I had another, uh, professor at that time who called me Dostoevsky because he thought that I, I don't know.

I don't think he thought that I was like Raskolnikov, but he thought that I was in, he thought that I was in some kind of existential dread.

Yeah, you have to destroy every canvas.

You have to ruin every meaning.

Have you ever, um, do you know that I mentioned him earlier in another context, you know, the psychologist Paul Witts?

He's a very smart guy.

He did a study of, biographical study, comparative biography of, oh, I don't know, something like 200 famous skeptics, atheists.

Yes, yes.

And he had not picked them out by any criterion except that they'd been influential.

Right.

And discovered that in every single case, there was a defective relationship with the father.

So maybe the dad ran off with the secretary or something.

Maybe he had a distant relationship with his father.

The father was emotionally unavailable.

He beat him.

He something.

But in every case, there was a difficult relationship with the father.

And I see that among my students.