Lee Strobel
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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He said, yeah, it was not happy news when your dad learned that I was pregnant.
And so I had a very difficult... He was kind of done with it.
He wanted to go off and play golf and do all this stuff.
He did the parent thing.
He was kind of done.
And oops, now this comes along later.
And then the oldest?
Well, the oldest would be 10 years.
10 years older than you.
But here's what's interesting.
Studies have been done into the great atheists of history.
So there's a guy who's a professor at New York University.
He did this PhD project.
He looked at the famous atheists of history, Camus, Sartre, Nietzsche, Freud, Voltaire, Wells, Feuerbach, O'Hare.
He looked at every single one of them had a father who died when they were young, who divorced their mother when they were young, or with whom they had a very difficult relationship.
And Freud pointed out the implication is if your earthly father has hurt you or disappointed you in some way, you don't want to know anything about a heavenly father.
He's only going to be worse.