Vergote is - founding his views on many observations and experience - described the origin and formation of atheism under these eight aspects:
1. Man's spirit in the universe primarily encountered something lofty, mysterious and sacred (which is discussed in R. Otto). The sacred is something extraordinary for us, horrible and attractive at the same time. Man seizes the holy fear and joy. This double feeling from quite different before the Holy See, before the numinous - the Divine, may result in or acquiescence to God or separation from God. Instead of confidently into the hands of "desirable and attractive" (Father, for example), someone will frighten the thought that the holy and awful at the same time but will …show more content…
This builds the last eighth psychological motive, which Vergote interprets the birth of atheism. It is a critique of the idea and the reality of God the Father. He thinks he is the center of all the objections against religion, because there played the deepest man's accounts. The man calculated with that other, which also occurs in grace, and in the notice and claims as a father. If contemporary atheism stronger emphasizes human autonomy, the more emphatically rejecting any of God "interference in the internal affairs of man." (As Nietzsche humpback injured, as well as small Sartre, what God looks into the depths of the soul and conscience!) Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher, reproached the Christians that God has placed in the Unknown, not in the spirit of universal human (as Hegelians? ); reprimanded them what fear of collapse and egotism in life are not crushed by true love. In addition, he says, hiding behind faith in God the Father, who is too old-fashioned and conservative. The father is the law, strict judge, who will be seeking only his glory and does not give enough freedom human heart. Is there space for human freedom, the joy and the infinite love? Instead of guilt, anxiety, masochistic and sadistic elements of man seeks freedom. Removes prayer and obedience, they shut the victims and humility, a man is keen to mythical demiurge and Promethean types, and for his followers and companions enter the fight against the father. Freud explained how every man wants in some way be a father myself, and that means the last authority. This confusion stems from a poor knowledge of God, especially God the