misotheism

In that context, misotheism is encouraged for one third of all deities but not the other two thirds.

It immediately follows "Prometheus", and the two poems together should be understood as a pair, one expressing the sentiment of divine love, the other misotheism.

American death metal bands Deicide and Morbid Angel base much of their lyrics around misotheism in name and in concept.

Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Bernard Schweizer's book Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism is devoted to this topic.

For one who hates God (as existence, as Life for example called Misotheism) such a place as in the presence of God, will be eternal suffering.

Schweizer has written pioneering scholarly works in three fields: the politics of travel literature, the female epic, and, most recently, the treatment of God-hatred in literature (misotheism).

His latest book, Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism, explores an almost unknown strain of God-thinking.

Plotinus considered his opponents "heretics", "imbeciles" and "blasphemers" erroneously arriving at misotheism as the solution to the problem of evil, taking all their truths over from Plato.

Many bands in the black metal genre, such as Mayhem, Emperor, Gorgoroth and Darkthrone express extreme misotheism in their lyrics and actions, which involved burning down churches during the early 1990s.

Opposition to the existence of a god or gods is frequently referred to as dystheism (which means "belief in a deity that is not benevolent") or misotheism (strictly speaking, this means "hatred of God").

Bernard Schweizer (2002) stated "that the English vocabulary seems to lack a suitable word for outright hatred of God... history records a number of outspoken misotheists", believing "misotheism" to be his original coinage.

He traces the history of ideas behind misotheism from the Book of Job, via Epicureanism and the twilight of Roman paganism, to deism, anarchism, Nietzschean philosophy, feminism, and radical humanism.

Schweizer argues that literature is the preferred medium for the expression of God-hatred because the creative possibilities of literature allow writers to simultaneously unburden themselves of their misotheism, while ingeneously veiling their blasphemy.

However, Plotinus attempted to clarify how the philosophers of the academy had not arrived at the same conclusions (such as misotheism or dystheism of the creator God as an answer to the problem of evil) as the targets of his criticism.