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possible worlds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Divine_retribution" title="Divine retribution">Divine retribution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dystheism" title="Dystheism">Dystheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epicurean_paradox" title="Epicurean paradox">Epicurean paradox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_will" title="Free will">Free will</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inconsistent_triad" title="Inconsistent triad">Inconsistent triad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irenaean_theodicy" title="Irenaean theodicy">Irenaean theodicy</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Misotheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moral_evil" title="Moral evil">Moral evil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natural_evil" title="Natural evil">Natural evil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Problem_of_evil" title="Problem of evil">Problem of evil</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><div 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Ehrman">Ehrman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epicurus" title="Epicurus">Epicurus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hick" title="John Hick">Hick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Hume" title="David Hume">Hume</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irenaeus" title="Irenaeus">Saint Irenaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz" title="Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz">Leibniz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_de_Maistre" title="Joseph de Maistre">Maistre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Nietzsche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alvin_Plantinga" title="Alvin Plantinga">Plantinga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_L._Rowe" title="William L. Rowe">Rowe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Swinburne" title="Richard Swinburne">Swinburne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elie_Wiesel" title="Elie Wiesel">Wiesel</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Theodicy" title="Template:Theodicy"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:Theodicy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:Theodicy (page does not exist)"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Theodicy" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Theodicy"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Misotheism</b> is the "hatred of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>" or "hatred of the <a href="/wiki/Deity" title="Deity">gods</a>" (from the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Greek</a> adjective <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">misotheos</i></span> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">μισόθεος</span></span>) "hating the gods" or "God-hating" – a compound of, <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BC%E1%BF%96%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%82" class="extiw" title="wikt:μῖσος">μῖσος</a></span></span>, "hatred" and, <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B8%CE%B5%CF%8C%CF%82" class="extiw" title="wikt:θεός">θεός</a></span></span>, "god"). </p><p>A related concept is <a href="/wiki/Dystheism" title="Dystheism">dystheism</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">δύσ θεός</span>, "bad god"), the belief that a god is not wholly <a href="/wiki/Good_and_evil" title="Good and evil">good</a>, and is evil. <a href="/wiki/Trickster" title="Trickster">Trickster</a> gods found in polytheistic belief systems often have a dystheistic nature. One example is <a href="/wiki/Eshu" title="Eshu">Eshu</a>, a trickster god from <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_religion" title="Yoruba religion">Yoruba religion</a> who deliberately fostered violence between groups of people for his own deeds, saying that "causing ire is my greatest happiness." Many <a href="/wiki/Polytheism" title="Polytheism">polytheistic</a> deities since prehistoric times have been assumed to be neither good nor evil (or to have both qualities). Likewise, the concept of the <a href="/wiki/Demiurge" title="Demiurge">demiurge</a> in some versions of ancient <a href="/wiki/Gnosticism" title="Gnosticism">Gnosticism</a> is often portrayed as a generally evil entity. In <a href="/wiki/Conceptions_of_God" title="Conceptions of God">conceptions of God</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Summum_bonum" title="Summum bonum">summum bonum</a> (the highest good), the proposition of God not being wholly good would be an <a href="/wiki/Oxymoron" title="Oxymoron">oxymoron</a>. Nevertheless, in <a href="/wiki/Monotheism" title="Monotheism">monotheism</a>, the sentiment may arise in the context of <a href="/wiki/Theodicy" title="Theodicy">theodicy</a> (the <a href="/wiki/Problem_of_evil" title="Problem of evil">problem of evil</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Euthyphro_dilemma" title="Euthyphro dilemma">Euthyphro dilemma</a>) or as a rejection or criticism of particular depictions or attributions of the monotheistic god in certain belief systems (as expressed by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Paine" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Deism" title="Deism">deist</a>). A famous literary expression of misotheistic sentiment is <a href="/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Goethe</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Prometheus_(Goethe)" title="Prometheus (Goethe)">Prometheus</a></i>, composed in the 1770s. </p><p>A historical proposition close to dystheism is the <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">deus deceptor</i></span>, "<a href="/wiki/Evil_demon" title="Evil demon">evil demon</a>" (<span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">dieu trompeur</i></span>) of <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes" title="René Descartes">René Descartes</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/Meditations_on_First_Philosophy" title="Meditations on First Philosophy">Meditations on First Philosophy</a></i>, which has been interpreted by <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestant</a> critics as the <a href="/wiki/Blasphemy" title="Blasphemy">blasphemous</a> proposition that God exhibits malevolent intent. But <a href="/wiki/Richard_Kennington" title="Richard Kennington">Richard Kennington</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> states that Descartes never declared his "evil genius" to be omnipotent, but merely no less powerful than he is deceitful, and thus not explicitly an equivalent to God, the singular omnipotent deity. </p><p>Thus, Hrafnkell, protagonist of the eponymous <i><a href="/wiki/Hrafnkels_saga" title="Hrafnkels saga">Hrafnkels saga</a></i> set in the 10th century, as his temple to <a href="/wiki/Freyr" title="Freyr">Freyr</a> is burnt and he is enslaved, states that "I think it is folly to have faith in gods", never performing another <a href="/wiki/Bl%C3%B3t" title="Blót">blót</a> (sacrifice), a position described in the sagas as <span title="Old Norse-language text"><i lang="non-Latn">goðlauss</i></span>, "godless". <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Grimm" title="Jacob Grimm">Jacob Grimm</a> in his <i>Teutonic Mythology</i> observes that: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>It is remarkable that Old Norse legend occasionally mentions certain men who, turning away in utter disgust and doubt from the heathen faith, placed their reliance on their own strength and virtue. Thus in the <a href="/wiki/S%C3%B3larlj%C3%B3%C3%B0" title="Sólarljóð">Sôlar lioð</a> 17 we read of Vêbogi and Râdey <i>á sjálf sig þau trûðu</i>, "in themselves they trusted".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Terminology">Terminology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Misotheism&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Terminology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/misotheism" class="extiw" title="wikt:misotheism">Misotheism</a></i> first appears in the <a href="/wiki/Chambers_Dictionary" title="Chambers Dictionary">Chambers Dictionary</a> in 1907.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Greek <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">μισόθεος</span></span> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">misotheos</i></span>) is found in Aeschylus (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Oresteia" class="mw-redirect" title="The Oresteia">Agamemnon</a></i> 1090). The English word appears as a <a href="/wiki/Nonce_word" title="Nonce word">nonce</a>-coinage, used by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_De_Quincey" title="Thomas De Quincey">Thomas De Quincey</a> in 1846.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is comparable to the original meaning of Greek [[[:wikt:ἄθεος|atheos]]] <span style="color:#d33">Error: {{Lang}}: Non-latn text/Latn script subtag mismatch (<a href="/wiki/Category:Lang_and_lang-xx_template_errors" title="Category:Lang and lang-xx template errors">help</a>)</span> of "rejecting the gods, rejected by the gods, godforsaken". Strictly speaking, the term connotes an attitude towards the gods (one of hatred) rather than making a statement about their nature. <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Schweizer" title="Bernard Schweizer">Bernard Schweizer</a> (2002) stated "that the English vocabulary seems to lack a suitable word for outright hatred of God... [even though] history records a number of outspoken misotheists", believing "misotheism" to be his original coinage. Applying the term to the work of <a href="/wiki/Philip_Pullman" title="Philip Pullman">Philip Pullman</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/His_Dark_Materials" title="His Dark Materials">His Dark Materials</a></i>), Schweizer clarifies that he does not mean the term to carry the negative connotations of <a href="/wiki/Misanthropy" title="Misanthropy">misanthropy</a>: <i>"To me, the word connotes a heroic stance of humanistic affirmation and the courage to defy the powers that rule the universe."</i><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dystheism" class="extiw" title="wikt:dystheism">Dystheism</a></i> is the belief that <a href="/wiki/Existence_of_God" title="Existence of God">God exists</a> but is not wholly <a href="/wiki/Good_and_evil" title="Good and evil">good</a>, or that he might even be <a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">evil</a>. The opposite concept is <i><a href="/wiki/Omnibenevolence" title="Omnibenevolence">eutheism</a></i>, the belief that <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> exists and is wholly good. <i>Eutheism</i> and <i>dystheism</i> are straightforward Greek formations from <i>eu-</i> and <i>dys-</i> + <i><a href="/wiki/Theism" title="Theism">theism</a></i>, paralleling <i><a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">atheism</a></i>; <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">δύσθεος</span></span> in the sense of "godless, ungodly" appearing e.g. in <a href="/wiki/Aeschylus" title="Aeschylus">Aeschylus</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Agamemnon_(play)" class="mw-redirect" title="Agamemnon (play)">Agamemnon</a></i> 1590). The terms are <a href="/wiki/Nonce_word" title="Nonce word">nonce</a> coinages, used by <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin" title="University of Texas at Austin">University of Texas at Austin</a> philosophy professor <a href="/wiki/Robert_Koons" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Koons">Robert C. Koons</a> in a 1998 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071203180444/http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/koons/356/lec19.html">lecture</a>. According to Koons, "eutheism is the thesis that God exists and is wholly good, [... while] dystheism is the thesis that God exists but is not wholly good." However, many proponents of dystheistic ideas (including <a href="/wiki/Elie_Wiesel" title="Elie Wiesel">Elie Wiesel</a> and David Blumenthal) do not offer those ideas in the spirit of <i>hating</i> God.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their work notes God's apparent evil or at least indifferent disinterest in the welfare of humanity, but does not express hatred towards him because of it. A notable usage of the concept that the gods are either indifferent or actively hostile towards humanity is expressed in <a href="/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft" title="H. P. Lovecraft">H. P. Lovecraft</a>'s literary philosophy of <a href="/wiki/Cosmicism#Cosmic_indifferentism" title="Cosmicism">Cosmic indifferentism</a>, which pervades the <a href="/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos" title="Cthulhu Mythos">Cthulhu Mythos</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Sederholm_2016_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sederholm_2016-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="anchor" id="Maltheism"></span><i>Maltheism</i> is an ad-hoc coining appearing on <a href="/wiki/Usenet" title="Usenet">Usenet</a> in 1985,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> referring to the belief in God's malevolence inspired by the thesis of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tim_Maroney&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tim Maroney (page does not exist)">Tim Maroney</a> that "even if a God as described in the Bible does exist, he is not fit for worship due to his low moral standards."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same term has also seen use among designers and players of <a href="/wiki/GURPS" title="GURPS">role-playing games</a> to describe a world with a malevolent deity.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Antitheism" title="Antitheism">Antitheism</a></i> is direct opposition to theism. As such, it is generally manifested more as an opposition to belief in a god (to theism per se) than as opposition to gods themselves, making it more associated with <a href="/wiki/Antireligion" title="Antireligion">antireligion</a>, although <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> is generally considered to be a religion despite its status with respect to theism being more nebulous. Antitheism by this definition does not necessarily imply belief in any sort of god at all, it simply stands in opposition to the idea of theistic religion. Under this definition, antitheism is a rejection of theism that does not necessarily imply belief in gods on the part of the antitheist. Some might equate any form of antitheism to an overt opposition to God, since these beliefs run contrary to the idea of making devotion to God the highest priority in life, although those ideas would imply that God exists, and that he wishes to be worshiped, or to be believed in.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Certain forms of <i><a href="/wiki/Dualistic_cosmology" class="mw-redirect" title="Dualistic cosmology">dualism</a></i> make the assertion that the thing worshiped as God in this world is actually an evil impostor, but that a true benevolent deity worthy of being called "God" exists beyond this world. Thus, the <a href="/wiki/Gnostic" class="mw-redirect" title="Gnostic">Gnostics</a> (see <a href="/wiki/Sethian" class="mw-redirect" title="Sethian">Sethian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ophites" title="Ophites">Ophites</a>) believed that God (the deity worshiped by Jews, Greek Pagan philosophers and Christians) was really an evil creator or <a href="/wiki/Demiurge" title="Demiurge">demiurge</a> that stood between us and some greater, more truly benevolent real deity. Similarly, <a href="/wiki/Marcionism" title="Marcionism">Marcionites</a> depicted God as represented in the <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a> as a wrathful, malicious demiurge.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Theodicy">Theodicy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Misotheism&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Theodicy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Theodicy" title="Theodicy">Theodicy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Problem_of_evil" title="Problem of evil">Problem of evil</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Holocaust_theology" title="Holocaust theology">Holocaust theology</a></div> <p>Dystheistic speculation arises from consideration of the <a href="/wiki/Problem_of_evil" title="Problem of evil">problem of evil</a> — the question of why God, who is supposedly omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent, would allow evil to exist in the world. Koons notes that this is a theological problem only for a eutheist, since a dystheist would not find the existence of evil (or God's authorship of it) to be an obstacle to theistic belief. In fact, the dystheistic option would be a consistent non-contradictory response to the problem of evil. Thus Koons concludes that the problem of <a href="/wiki/Theodicy" title="Theodicy">theodicy</a> (explaining how God can be good despite the apparent contradiction presented in the problem of evil) does not pose a challenge to <i>all</i> possible forms of theism (i.e., that the problem of evil does not present a contradiction to someone who would believe that God exists but that he is not necessarily good).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>This conclusion implicitly takes the first horn of the <a href="/wiki/Euthyphro_dilemma" title="Euthyphro dilemma">Euthyphro dilemma</a>, asserting the independence of <a href="/wiki/Good_and_evil" title="Good and evil">good and evil</a> <a href="/wiki/Morality" title="Morality">morality</a> from God (as God is defined in <a href="/wiki/Monotheistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Monotheistic">monotheistic</a> belief). Historically, the notion of "good" as an absolute concept has emerged in parallel with the notion of God being the singular entity identified with good. In this sense, dystheism amounts to the abandonment of a central feature of historical monotheism: the de facto association of God with the <a href="/wiki/Summum_bonum" title="Summum bonum">summum bonum</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer" title="Arthur Schopenhauer">Arthur Schopenhauer</a> wrote: "This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings."<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Critics of <a href="/wiki/John_Calvin" title="John Calvin">Calvin</a>'s doctrines of <a href="/wiki/Predestination" title="Predestination">predestination</a> frequently argued that Calvin's doctrines did not successfully avoid describing God as "the author of evil".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Much of <a href="/wiki/Holocaust_theology" title="Holocaust theology">post-Holocaust theology</a>, especially in <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaic</a> theological circles, is devoted to a rethinking of God's goodness. Examples include the work of David R. Blumenthal, author of <i>Facing the Abusing God</i> (1993) and John K. Roth, whose essay "A Theodicy of Protest" is included in <i>Encountering Evil: Live Options in Theodicy</i> (1982): </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Everything hinges on the proposition that God possesses—but fails to use well enough—the power to intervene decisively at any moment to make history's course less wasteful. Thus, in spite and because of his sovereignty, this God is everlastingly guilty and the degrees run from gross negligence to mass murder... To the extent that [people] are born with the potential and power to [do evil things], credit for that fact belongs elsewhere. "Elsewhere" is God's address.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Deus_deceptor"><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Deus deceptor</i></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Misotheism&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Deus deceptor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Deus_deceptor" class="mw-redirect" title="Deus deceptor">Deus deceptor</a></div> <p>The <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">deus deceptor</i></span> (<span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">dieu trompeur</i></span>), "deceptive god", is a concept of Cartesianism. <a href="/wiki/Voetius" class="mw-redirect" title="Voetius">Voetius</a> accused Descartes of blasphemy in 1643. <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Triglandius" class="mw-redirect" title="Jacques Triglandius">Jacques Triglandius</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jacobus_Revius" title="Jacobus Revius">Jacobus Revius</a>, theologians at <a href="/wiki/Leiden_University" title="Leiden University">Leiden University</a>, made similar accusations in 1647, accusing Descartes of "hold[ing] God to be a deceiver", a position that they stated to be "contrary to the glory of God". Descartes was threatened with having his views condemned by a <a href="/wiki/Synod" title="Synod">synod</a>, but this was prevented by the intercession of the <a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Orange" title="Prince of Orange">Prince of Orange</a> (at the request of the French Ambassador Servien).<sup id="cite_ref-Janowski_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Janowski-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The accusations referenced a passage in the <i>First Meditation</i> where Descartes stated that he supposed not an optimal God but rather an evil demon "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/summe" class="extiw" title="wikt:summe">summe</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/potens" class="extiw" title="wikt:potens">potens</a> & <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/callidus" class="extiw" title="wikt:callidus">callidus</a>" ("most highly powerful and cunning"). The accusers identified Descartes' concept of a deus deceptor with his concept of an <a href="/wiki/Evil_demon" title="Evil demon">evil demon</a>, stating that only an omnipotent God is "summe potens" and that describing the evil demon as such thus demonstrated the identity. Descartes' response to the accusations was that in that passage he had been expressly distinguishing between "the supremely good God, the source of truth, on the one hand, and the malicious demon on the other". He did not directly rebut the charge of implying that the evil demon was omnipotent, but asserted that simply describing something with "some attribute that in reality belongs only to God" does not mean that that something is being held to actually <i>be</i> a supreme God.<sup id="cite_ref-Janowski_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Janowski-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The evil demon is omnipotent, Christian doctrine notwithstanding, and is seen as a key requirement for Descartes' argument by Cartesian scholars such as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Algui%C3%A9&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alguié (page does not exist)">Alguié</a>, Beck, <a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Br%C3%A9hier" title="Émile Bréhier">Émile Bréhier</a>, Chevalier, Frankfurt, <a href="/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Gilson" title="Étienne Gilson">Étienne Gilson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Kenny" title="Anthony Kenny">Anthony Kenny</a>, Laporte, Kemp-Smith, and Wilson. The progression through the <i>First Meditation</i>, leading to the introduction of the concept of the evil genius at the end, is to introduce various categories into the set of dubitables, such as mathematics (i.e. Descartes' addition of 2 and 3 and counting the sides of a square). Although the hypothetical evil genius is never stated to be one and the same as the hypothetical "deus deceptor," (God the deceiver) the inference by the reader that they are is a natural one, and the requirement that the deceiver is capable of introducing deception even into mathematics is seen by commentators as a necessary part of Descartes' argument. Scholars contend that in fact Descartes was not introducing a new hypothetical, merely couching the idea of a deceptive God in terms that would not be offensive.<sup id="cite_ref-Janowski_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Janowski-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s" title="Paul Erdős">Paul Erdős</a>, the eccentric and extremely prolific <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungarian</a>-born <a href="/wiki/Mathematician" title="Mathematician">mathematician</a>, referred to the notion of <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">deus deceptor</i></span> in a humorous context when he called God "the Supreme Fascist", who deliberately hid things from people, ranging from socks and passports to the most elegant of mathematical proofs.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> A similar sentiment is expressed by <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams">Douglas Adams</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhikers_Guide_to_the_Galaxy" class="mw-redirect" title="The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy">The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy</a></i> in reference to the temptation of <a href="/wiki/Adam_and_Eve" title="Adam and Eve">Adam and Eve</a> by God:<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <blockquote><p>[God] puts an apple tree in the middle of [the Garden of Eden] and says, do what you like guys, oh, but don't eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting "Gotcha." It wouldn't have made any difference if they hadn't eaten it...Because if you're dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality which likes leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know perfectly well they won't give up. They'll get you in the end.</p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_Jewish_and_Christian_scriptures">In Jewish and Christian scriptures</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Misotheism&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: In Jewish and Christian scriptures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Ethics_in_the_Bible#God's_benevolence" title="Ethics in the Bible">Ethics in the Bible § God's benevolence</a></div> <p>There are various examples of arguable dystheism in the <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a>, sometimes cited as arguments for <a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">atheism</a> (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a> 1957), most of them from the <a href="/wiki/Pentateuch" class="mw-redirect" title="Pentateuch">Pentateuch</a>. A notable exception is the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Job" title="Book of Job">Book of Job</a>, a classical case study of <a href="/wiki/Theodicy" title="Theodicy">theodicy</a>, which can be argued to consciously discuss the possibility of dystheism (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Carl_Jung" title="Carl Jung">Carl Jung</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Answer_to_Job" title="Answer to Job">Answer to Job</a></i>). </p><p><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Paine" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a> wrote in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Age_of_Reason" title="The Age of Reason">The Age of Reason</a></i> that "whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the word of God."<sup id="cite_ref-Paine1819_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paine1819-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But Paine's perspective was a <a href="/wiki/Deism" title="Deism">deistic</a> one, critical more of common beliefs about God than of God himself. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a> contains references to an "evil god", specifically the "prince of this world" (John 14:30, <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ὁ τοῦ κόσμου τούτου ἄρχων</span></span>) or "god of this world" (2 Corinthians 4:4, <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ὁ θεὸς τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου</span></span>) who has "blinded the minds of men". Mainstream <a href="/wiki/Christian_theology" title="Christian theology">Christian theology</a> sees these as references to <a href="/wiki/Satan" title="Satan">Satan</a> ("the Devil"), but <a href="/wiki/Gnosticism" title="Gnosticism">Gnostics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marcionism" title="Marcionism">Marcionites</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Manicheanism" class="mw-redirect" title="Manicheanism">Manicheans</a> saw these as references to <a href="/wiki/Yahweh" title="Yahweh">Yahweh</a> (God) himself.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_art_and_literature">In art and literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Misotheism&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: In art and literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Misotheistic and/or dystheistic expression has a long history in the arts and in literature. <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Schweizer" title="Bernard Schweizer">Bernard Schweizer</a>'s book <i>Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism</i> is devoted to this topic. He traces the <a href="/wiki/History_of_ideas" class="mw-redirect" title="History of ideas">history of ideas</a> behind misotheism from the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Job" title="Book of Job">Book of Job</a>, via <a href="/wiki/Epicureanism" title="Epicureanism">Epicureanism</a> and the twilight of Roman <a href="/wiki/Paganism" title="Paganism">paganism</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Deism" title="Deism">deism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anarchism" title="Anarchism">anarchism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nietzsche" class="mw-redirect" title="Nietzsche">Nietzschean</a> philosophy, <a href="/wiki/Feminism" title="Feminism">feminism</a>, and radical <a href="/wiki/Humanism" title="Humanism">humanism</a>. The main literary figures in his study are <a href="/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" title="Percy Bysshe Shelley">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Algernon_Swinburne" class="mw-redirect" title="Algernon Swinburne">Algernon Swinburne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston" title="Zora Neale Hurston">Zora Neale Hurston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rebecca_West" title="Rebecca West">Rebecca West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elie_Wiesel" title="Elie Wiesel">Elie Wiesel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Shaffer" title="Peter Shaffer">Peter Shaffer</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Philip_Pullman" title="Philip Pullman">Philip Pullman</a>. 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 ingeniously veiling their blasphemy.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other examples include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Goethe</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Prometheus_(Goethe)" title="Prometheus (Goethe)">Prometheus</a></i><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>the work of the <a href="/wiki/Marquis_de_Sade" title="Marquis de Sade">Marquis de Sade</a><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson">Emily Dickinson</a>'s poem "Apparently With No Surprise" depicts God as approving of suffering in the world, relating the tale of a flower "beheaded" by a late frost as the sun "measure[s] off another day for an approving God".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a> (himself a Deist) argued against what he saw as the petty God many followed in a posthumously published book, <i>The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood</i>. He talks, in part, about the African "sleeping sickness", <a href="/wiki/Malaria" title="Malaria">malaria</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Karamazov#Ivan_Fyodorovich_Karamazov" class="mw-redirect" title="Ivan Karamazov">Ivan Karamazov</a> in <a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky" title="Fyodor Dostoevsky">Fyodor Dostoevsky</a>'s 1879 <i><a href="/wiki/The_Brothers_Karamazov" title="The Brothers Karamazov">The Brothers Karamazov</a></i> articulates what might be termed a dystheistic rejection of God. Koons covered this argument in the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071203201814/http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/koons/356/lec20.html">lecture immediately following</a> the one <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071203180444/http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/koons/356/lec19.html">referenced above</a>. It was also discussed by <a href="/wiki/Peter_S._Fosl" title="Peter S. Fosl">Peter S. Fosl</a> in his essay titled "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041031200636/http://www.philosophers.co.uk/portal_article.php?id=23">The Moral Imperative to Rebel Against God</a>".</li> <li>Konrad, the protagonist of <a href="/wiki/Adam_Mickiewicz" title="Adam Mickiewicz">Adam Mickiewicz</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Dziady_(poem)" title="Dziady (poem)">Forefathers' Eve</a></i>, is close to calling the God a <a href="/wiki/Tsar" title="Tsar">tsar</a>, an ultimate evil (since when Mickiewicz wrote his work, Poland was under Russian occupation). He wants to do that, because God didn't respond to his pleas about giving him the power to rule over people's emotion. He loses his strength, and Satan does it for him.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <p>In more recent times, the sentiment is present in a variety of media: </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poetry_and_drama">Poetry and drama</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Misotheism&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Poetry and drama"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The characters in several of <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Williams" title="Tennessee Williams">Tennessee Williams</a>' plays express dystheistic attitudes, including the Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Iguana" title="The Night of the Iguana">The Night of the Iguana</a></i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Robert_Frost" title="Robert Frost">Robert Frost</a>'s poem "Design" questions how God could have created death if he were benevolent.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Peter_Shaffer" title="Peter Shaffer">Peter Shaffer</a>'s play <i><a href="/wiki/Amadeus_(play)" title="Amadeus (play)">Amadeus</a></i> (1979) has the character <a href="/wiki/Antonio_Salieri" title="Antonio Salieri">Salieri</a> rebel against a God he feels neglected and humiliated by.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p> In Jewish author <a href="/wiki/Elie_Wiesel" title="Elie Wiesel">Elie Wiesel</a>'s play <i><a href="/wiki/The_Trial_of_God" title="The Trial of God">The Trial of God</a></i> (1979), the survivors of a <a href="/wiki/Pogrom" title="Pogrom">pogrom</a>, in which most of the inhabitants of a 17th-century Jewish village were massacred, put God on trial for his cruelty and indifference to their misery. The play is based on an actual trial Wiesel participated in that was conducted by inmates of the <a href="/wiki/Auschwitz" class="mw-redirect" title="Auschwitz">Auschwitz</a> <a href="/wiki/Concentration_camp" title="Concentration camp">concentration camp</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">Nazi</a> <a href="/wiki/Holocaust" class="mw-redirect" title="Holocaust">holocaust</a>, but it also references a number of other incidents in Jewish history including a similar trial conducted by the <a href="/wiki/Hasidic" class="mw-redirect" title="Hasidic">Hasidic</a> <a href="/wiki/Rabbi" title="Rabbi">Rabbi</a> <a href="/wiki/Levi_Yosef_Yitzhak_of_Berdichev" class="mw-redirect" title="Levi Yosef Yitzhak of Berdichev">Levi Yosef Yitzhak of Berdichev</a>:<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Men and women are being beaten, tortured and killed. True, they are victims of men. But the killers kill in God's name. Not all? True, but let one killer kill for God's glory, and God is guilty. Every person who suffers or causes suffering, every woman who is raped, every child who is tormented implicates Him. What, you need more? A hundred or a thousand? Listen, either he is responsible or he is not. If he is, let's judge him. If he is not, let him stop judging us.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2009)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p></blockquote> <p>In Alan Parker's Oscar-winning 1980 feature film <i><a href="/wiki/Fame_(1980_film)" title="Fame (1980 film)">Fame</a></i>, one of the main characters (played by Barry Miller) makes an explicit statement against God. Playing an aspiring stand-up comedian who is asked in an acting class to talk about an experience that has affected him deeply in order to sharpen his skills as a performer, he delivers an extended uncut monologue (rare for a mainstream Hollywood film at that time) that heavily criticizes both modern capitalism and religion, concluding with the line "and then we can all go pray to the asshole God who fucked everything up in the first place".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_literature">Modern literature</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Misotheism&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Modern literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Several non-Jewish authors share Wiesel's concerns about God's nature, including <a href="/wiki/Salman_Rushdie" title="Salman Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses" title="The Satanic Verses">The Satanic Verses</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Shalimar_the_Clown" title="Shalimar the Clown">Shalimar the Clown</a></i>)<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and <a href="/wiki/Anne_Provoost" title="Anne Provoost">Anne Provoost</a> (<i>In the Shadow of the Ark</i>): </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Why would you trust a God that doesn't give us the right book? Throughout history, he's given the Jewish people a book, he's given the Christians a book, and he's given the Muslims books, and there are big similarities between these books, but there are also contradictions. ... He needs to come back and create clarity and not ... let us fight over who's right. He should make it clear. So, my personal answer to your question, "Should we trust [a God who can't get things right]", I wouldn't.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The writing of <a href="/wiki/Sir_Kingsley_Amis" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Kingsley Amis">Sir Kingsley Amis</a> contains some misotheistic themes; e.g. in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Green_Man_(Kingsley_Amis_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Green Man (Kingsley Amis novel)">The Green Man</a></i> (God's appearance as the young man), and in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Anti-Death_League" title="The Anti-Death League">The Anti-Death League</a></i> (the anonymous poem received by the chaplain).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Speculative_fiction">Speculative fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Misotheism&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Speculative fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Misotheism" title="Special:EditPage/Misotheism">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">September 2018</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>A number of <a href="/wiki/Speculative_fiction" title="Speculative fiction">speculative fiction</a> works present a dystheistic perspective, at least as far back as the works of <a href="/wiki/Lovecraft_Mythos" class="mw-redirect" title="Lovecraft Mythos">H. P. Lovecraft</a> and <a href="/wiki/Olaf_Stapledon" title="Olaf Stapledon">Olaf Stapledon</a>'s influential philosophical <a href="/wiki/Short_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Short novel">short novel</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Maker" title="Star Maker">Star Maker</a></i>. </p><p>By the 1970s, <a href="/wiki/Harlan_Ellison" title="Harlan Ellison">Harlan Ellison</a> even described dystheism as a bit of a <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> cliché. Ellison himself has dealt with the theme in his "<a href="/wiki/The_Deathbird" title="The Deathbird">The Deathbird</a>", the title story of <i><a href="/wiki/Deathbird_Stories" title="Deathbird Stories">Deathbird Stories</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/Short_story_collection" title="Short story collection">collection</a> based on the theme of (for the most part) malevolent modern-day gods. <a href="/wiki/Lester_del_Rey" title="Lester del Rey">Lester del Rey</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Evensong_(short_story)" class="mw-redirect" title="Evensong (short story)">Evensong</a>" (the first story in Harlan Ellison's much-acclaimed <i><a href="/wiki/Dangerous_Visions" title="Dangerous Visions">Dangerous Visions</a></i> anthology), tells the story of a fugitive God hunted down across the universe by a vengeful humanity which seeks to "put him in his place". "<a href="/wiki/Faith_of_Our_Fathers_(short_story)" title="Faith of Our Fathers (short story)">Faith of Our Fathers</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Philip_K._Dick" title="Philip K. Dick">Philip K. Dick</a>, also from the same anthology, features a horrifying vision of a being, possibly God, who is all-devouring and amoral. <a href="/wiki/Philip_Pullman" title="Philip Pullman">Philip Pullman</a>'s previously mentioned trilogy, <i><a href="/wiki/His_Dark_Materials" title="His Dark Materials">His Dark Materials</a></i>, presented the theme of a negligent or evil God to a wider audience, as depicted in the 2007 film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Compass_(film)" title="The Golden Compass (film)">The Golden Compass</a></i> based on the first book of this trilogy. </p><p>The original series of <a href="/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series" title="Star Trek: The Original Series"><i>Star Trek</i></a> featured episodes with dystheistic themes, amongst them "<a href="/wiki/The_Squire_of_Gothos" title="The Squire of Gothos">The Squire of Gothos</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Who_Mourns_for_Adonais%3F" title="Who Mourns for Adonais?">Who Mourns for Adonais?</a>", "<a href="/wiki/For_the_World_Is_Hollow_and_I_Have_Touched_the_Sky" title="For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky">For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Archons" title="The Return of the Archons">The Return of the Archons</a>". In "<a href="/wiki/Encounter_at_Farpoint" title="Encounter at Farpoint">Encounter at Farpoint</a>", the pilot episode of <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation" title="Star Trek: The Next Generation">Star Trek: The Next Generation</a></i>, Captain <a href="/wiki/Jean-Luc_Picard" title="Jean-Luc Picard">Jean-Luc Picard</a> informs <a href="/wiki/Q_(Star_Trek)" title="Q (Star Trek)">Q</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Trickster" title="Trickster">trickster</a> with god-like powers similar to the antagonist in the aforementioned "Squire of Gothos" episode, that 24th-century humans no longer had any need to depend upon or worship god figures. This is an amplification of the tempered anti-theistic sentiment from "Who Mourns for Adonais?", in which Captain <a href="/wiki/James_T._Kirk" title="James T. Kirk">James T. Kirk</a> tells <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a> that "Mankind has no need for gods, we find the one quite adequate." A later episode, "<a href="/wiki/Who_Watches_the_Watchers" title="Who Watches the Watchers">Who Watches the Watchers</a>", depicts accidentally reviving theistic belief in a more primitive species as a negative thing which must be stopped. In <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine" title="Star Trek: Deep Space Nine">Star Trek: Deep Space Nine</a></i> it is revealed that the Klingon creation myth involves the first Klingons killing the gods that created them because, "They were more trouble than they were worth." </p><p>In the film <i><a href="/wiki/Pitch_Black_(film)" title="Pitch Black (film)">Pitch Black</a></i>, anti-hero protagonist Richard B. Riddick stated his own belief, after an <a href="/wiki/Imam" title="Imam">imam</a> accuses him of <a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">atheism</a>: "Think someone could spend half their life in a slam with a horse bit in their mouth and not believe? Think he could start out in some liquor store trash bin with an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and not believe? Got it all wrong, holy man. I absolutely believe in God... and I absolutely hate the fucker." </p><p><a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a>'s book <i><a href="/wiki/Job:_A_Comedy_of_Justice" title="Job: A Comedy of Justice">Job: A Comedy of Justice</a></i>, which is mostly about religious institutions, ends with an appearance by Yahweh which is far from complimentary. </p><p>The Athar, a fictional organization from the <a href="/wiki/Faction_(Planescape)" title="Faction (Planescape)">D&D's Planescape Campaign Setting</a> denies the divinity of the setting's deities. They do, however, tend to worship "<a href="/wiki/Deism" title="Deism">The Great Unknown</a>" in their place. In the <i><a href="/wiki/Pathfinder_Roleplaying_Game" title="Pathfinder Roleplaying Game">Pathfinder</a></i> universe, the nation of Rahadoum bans the worship of the setting's deities. They do not deny the deities' power or divinity, but instead believe that worshiping a deity is akin to enslaving ones' self and that mortals' problems are best solved without the interference of higher powers. </p><p>In the 2013 film <i><a href="/wiki/Prisoners_(2013_film)" title="Prisoners (2013 film)">Prisoners</a></i>, Holly Jones and her husband Isaac lost their faith in God after their son died of cancer. Since then, they have been kidnapping and murdering children in order to make other parents lose faith in God and turning them into revenge-driven hollow shells of their former selves, i.e. spreading their misotheism to other people. As Holly Jones states to Keller Dover near the end of the film: "Making children disappear is the war we wage with God. Makes people lose their faith, turns them into demons like you." </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/DC_Extended_Universe" title="DC Extended Universe">DC Extended Universe</a> film <i><a href="/wiki/Batman_v_Superman:_Dawn_of_Justice" title="Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice">Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Lex_Luthor" title="Lex Luthor">Lex Luthor</a> has a misotheistic view of God, believing that if God was omnipotent, then he logically could not be omnibenevolent and vice versa (the theological <a href="/wiki/Problem_of_evil" title="Problem of evil">problem of evil</a>), thereby solidifying his belief that power cannot be innocent. He has a penchant for constantly implementing allusions to major figures of both pagan and biblical theology, with him notably comparing himself to Prometheus, <a href="/wiki/General_Zod" title="General Zod">General Zod</a> to <a href="/wiki/Icarus" title="Icarus">Icarus</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Superman" title="Superman">Superman</a> to <a href="/wiki/Zeus_(DC_Comics)" title="Zeus (DC Comics)">Zeus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Horus" title="Horus">Horus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Presence_(DC_Comics)" title="Presence (DC Comics)">Jehovah</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lucifer_(DC_Comics)" title="Lucifer (DC Comics)">Satan</a>. He even compares himself to the biblical God in one way, claiming to hate "the sin, not the sinner", and plays God by creating the monster <a href="/wiki/Doomsday_(DC_Comics)" title="Doomsday (DC Comics)">Doomsday</a>. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Luke_Cage_season_1" title="Luke Cage season 1">season 1</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/Luke_Cage_(TV_series)" title="Luke Cage (TV series)">Luke Cage</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Diamondback_(Willis_Stryker)" title="Diamondback (Willis Stryker)">Willis Stryker</a>'s misotheism seemed to enforce his revenge mission against his half-brother <a href="/wiki/Luke_Cage" title="Luke Cage">Luke Cage</a>, quoting several Bible verses that directly link to Lukes's supposed betrayal against Stryker. The Judas Bullet was designed to symbolize this act of treachery; stating "one Judas to another" before shooting Luke in the abdomen and vowing to repeat the same words that <a href="/wiki/Cain" title="Cain">Cain</a> said to his <a href="/wiki/Adam" title="Adam">father</a> after killing <a href="/wiki/Abel" title="Abel">Abel</a> when he finally did kill Cage. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Popular_music">Popular music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Misotheism&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Popular music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Misotheism</i> is a 2008 <a href="/wiki/Album" title="Album">album</a> by Belgian <a href="/wiki/Black_metal" title="Black metal">black metal</a> band <i>Gorath</i>. </p><p>Dystheistic sentiment has also made its way into popular music, evincing itself in controversial songs like "<a href="/wiki/Dear_God_(XTC_song)" title="Dear God (XTC song)">Dear God</a>"<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by the band <a href="/wiki/XTC" title="XTC">XTC</a> (later covered by <a href="/wiki/Sarah_McLachlan" title="Sarah McLachlan">Sarah McLachlan</a>) and "<a href="/wiki/Blasphemous_Rumours" class="mw-redirect" title="Blasphemous Rumours">Blasphemous Rumours</a>"<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by <a href="/wiki/Depeche_Mode" title="Depeche Mode">Depeche Mode</a>, which tells the story of a teenage girl who attempted suicide, survived, and turned her life over to God, only to be hit by a car, wind up on life support, and eventually die. A good deal of <a href="/wiki/Gary_Numan" title="Gary Numan">Gary Numan</a>'s work, specifically the album <i>Exile</i>, is laden with misotheistic themes. </p><p>The output of Oscar-winning songwriter/composer <a href="/wiki/Randy_Newman" title="Randy Newman">Randy Newman</a> also includes several songs expressing dystheistic sentiment, including the ironic "<a href="/wiki/He_Gives_Us_All_His_Love" title="He Gives Us All His Love">He Gives Us All His Love</a>" and the more overtly maltheistic "God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)",<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> both from his acclaimed 1972 album <i><a href="/wiki/Sail_Away_(Randy_Newman_album)" title="Sail Away (Randy Newman album)">Sail Away</a></i>. In the latter song, Newman bemoans the futility of dealing with God whose attitude towards humanity he sees as one of contempt and cruelty. </p><p>The song "God Made" by <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Jihad" class="mw-redirect" title="Andrew Jackson Jihad">Andrew Jackson Jihad</a> proposes dystheism and has an implied hatred for God. More specifically, their song "Be Afraid of Jesus" is about a vengeful Christ although this could be a critique of fundamentalist hate speech. </p><p>"God Am" by <a href="/wiki/Alice_in_Chains" title="Alice in Chains">Alice in Chains</a> from their <a href="/wiki/Alice_in_Chains_(album)" title="Alice in Chains (album)">self-titled album</a> has many misotheistic themes about the perceived apathy of God towards the evil in this world. </p><p>"Godwhacker" by <a href="/wiki/Steely_Dan" title="Steely Dan">Steely Dan</a> from their <i><a href="/wiki/Everything_Must_Go_(Steely_Dan_album)" title="Everything Must Go (Steely Dan album)">Everything Must Go</a></i> album developed from a lyric frontman <a href="/wiki/Donald_Fagen" title="Donald Fagen">Donald Fagen</a> wrote a few days after his mother died of Alzheimer's. "It's about an elite squad of assassins whose sole assignment is to find a way into heaven and take out God", he later explained. "If the Deity actually existed, what sane person wouldn't consider this to be justifiable homicide?"<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the song "Terrible Lie" by Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor expresses anger, confusion, and sadness towards God and the world he created. </p><p>"Judith" by A Perfect Circle is a satirical song that places blame on God for the illness of the lead singer's mother, Judith. Despite her deteriorating condition, Judith never questions why she has been placed in her predicament but instead continues to praise and worship God. Her son angrily mocks god and presents arguments as to why she shouldn't have to suffer. </p><p>Marilyn Manson's "Fight Song," "Say 10," and others have direct and indirect misotheistic themes. </p><p>American <a href="/wiki/Death_metal" title="Death metal">death metal</a> bands <a href="/wiki/Deicide_(band)" title="Deicide (band)">Deicide</a> and <a href="/wiki/Morbid_Angel" title="Morbid Angel">Morbid Angel</a> base much of their lyrics around misotheism in name and in concept. Many bands in the <a href="/wiki/Black_metal" title="Black metal">black metal</a> genre, such as <a href="/wiki/Mayhem_(band)" title="Mayhem (band)">Mayhem</a>, <a href="/wiki/Emperor_(band)" title="Emperor (band)">Emperor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gorgoroth_(band)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gorgoroth (band)">Gorgoroth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Darkthrone" title="Darkthrone">Darkthrone</a> express extreme misotheism in their lyrics. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_art">Modern art</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Misotheism&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Modern art"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> In 2006, Australian artist Archie Moore created a paper sculpture called "Maltheism", which was considered for a <a href="/wiki/Telstra" title="Telstra">Telstra</a> Art Award in 2006. The piece was intended as a representation of a church made from pages of the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Deuteronomy" title="Book of Deuteronomy">Book of Deuteronomy</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>...and within its text is the endorsement from God to <a href="/wiki/Moses" title="Moses">Moses</a> for invasion of other nations. It says that you have the right to invade, take all their resources, kill all the men (non-believers) and make no treaty with them.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Misotheism&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output 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.cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFRichard_Kennington1991" class="citation book cs1">Richard Kennington (1991). "The 'Teaching of Nature' in Descartes' Soul Doctrine". In Georges Joseph Daniel Moyal (ed.). <i>René Descartes: Critical Assessments</i>. Routledge. p. 139. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-415-02358-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-415-02358-0"><bdi>0-415-02358-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+%27Teaching+of+Nature%27+in+Descartes%27+Soul+Doctrine&rft.btitle=Ren%C3%A9+Descartes%3A+Critical+Assessments&rft.pages=139&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=1991&rft.isbn=0-415-02358-0&rft.au=Richard+Kennington&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMisotheism" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRichard_M._Kennington2004" class="citation book cs1">Richard M. Kennington (2004). "The Finitude of Descartes' Evil Genius". <i>On Modern Origins: Essays in Early Modern Philosophy</i>. Lexington Books. p. 146. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7391-0815-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-7391-0815-8"><bdi>0-7391-0815-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Finitude+of+Descartes%27+Evil+Genius&rft.btitle=On+Modern+Origins%3A+Essays+in+Early+Modern+Philosophy&rft.pages=146&rft.pub=Lexington+Books&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=0-7391-0815-8&rft.au=Richard+M.+Kennington&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMisotheism" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jacob Grimm: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.northvegr.org/lore/grimmst/001_02.php">Teutonic Mythology</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090604214103/http://www.northvegr.org/lore/grimmst/001_02.php">Archived</a> 2009-06-04 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> Chapter 1. page 2. (Grimm's Teutonic Mythology Translation Project.)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=cIIVAAAAYAAJ&dq=misotheism+1907&pg=PA577"><i>Chamber's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language: Pronouncing, Explanatory, Etymological, with Compound Phrases, Technical Terms in Use in the Arts and Sciences, Colloquialisms, Full Appendices, and Copiously Illustrated</i></a>. W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1907.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Chamber%27s+Twentieth+Century+Dictionary+of+the+English+Language%3A+Pronouncing%2C+Explanatory%2C+Etymological%2C+with+Compound+Phrases%2C+Technical+Terms+in+Use+in+the+Arts+and+Sciences%2C+Colloquialisms%2C+Full+Appendices%2C+and+Copiously+Illustrated&rft.pub=W.+%26+R.+Chambers+Limited&rft.date=1907&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DcIIVAAAAYAAJ%26dq%3Dmisotheism%2B1907%26pg%3DPA577&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMisotheism" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/New_English_Dictionary" class="mw-redirect" title="New English Dictionary">New English Dictionary</a>, under <i>miso-</i>; also explicitly in 1913, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.1913dictionary.com/dictionary/word/misotheism/">Noah Webster's Dictionary of the English Language</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070929065752/http://www.1913dictionary.com/dictionary/word/misotheism/">Archived</a> 2007-09-29 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"On Christianity as an Organ of Political Movement" (1846).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bernard Schweizer, 'Religious Subversion in <i>His Dark Materials</i> in: Millicent Lenz, Carole Scott (eds.) <i>His Dark Materials Illuminated: Critical Essays On Philip Pullman's Trilogy</i> (2005), p. 172, note 3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Seidner, Stanley S. (June 10, 2009) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:FrKYAo88ckkJ:www.materdei.ie/media/conferences/a-secular-age-parallel-sessions-timetable.pdf+%22Stan+Seidner%22&hl=en&gl=us">"A Trojan Horse: Logotherapeutic Transcendence and its Secular Implications for Theology"</a>. <i>Mater Dei Institute</i>. pp. 11-12.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Sederholm_2016-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Sederholm_2016_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJohnson2016" class="citation book cs1">Johnson, Brian (2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-Ch0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA97">"Prehistories of Posthumanism: Cosmic Indifferentism, Alien Genesis, and Ecology from H. P. Lovecraft to Ridley Scott"</a>. In Sederholm, Carl H.; Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew (eds.). <i>The Age of Lovecraft</i>. <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis" title="Minneapolis">Minneapolis</a>: <a href="/wiki/University_of_Minnesota_Press" title="University of Minnesota Press">University of Minnesota Press</a>. pp. 97–116. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8166-9925-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8166-9925-4"><bdi>978-0-8166-9925-4</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt1b9x1f3.9">10.5749/j.ctt1b9x1f3.9</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Prehistories+of+Posthumanism%3A+Cosmic+Indifferentism%2C+Alien+Genesis%2C+and+Ecology+from+H.+P.+Lovecraft+to+Ridley+Scott&rft.btitle=The+Age+of+Lovecraft&rft.place=Minneapolis&rft.pages=97-116&rft.pub=University+of+Minnesota+Press&rft.date=2016&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F10.5749%2Fj.ctt1b9x1f3.9%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.isbn=978-0-8166-9925-4&rft.aulast=Johnson&rft.aufirst=Brian&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D-Ch0DwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA97&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMisotheism" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apparently coined by Paul Zimmerman in August 1985, on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://groups.google.com/group/net.origins/browse_thread/thread/2511f7a6ccacd6a9/7179db188c826528?lnk=st&q=%22Damager+God%22&rnum=5#7179db188c826528">net.origins</a> referring to the misotheistic belief that God was in fact not a "Creator-God" but a "Damager-God".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Original Usenet posting of Maroney's "Even If I Did Believe" essay, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://groups.google.com/group/net.religion/msg/30925fd2c9a20cbd">31 December 1983</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Naylor et al. (1994)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See the example of Viktor Frankl in Seidner, Stanley S. (June 10, 2009) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:FrKYAo88ckkJ:www.materdei.ie/media/conferences/a-secular-age-parallel-sessions-timetable.pdf+%22Stan+Seidner%22&hl=en&gl=us">"A Trojan Horse: Logotherapeutic Transcendence and its Secular Implications for Theology"</a>. <i>Mater Dei Institute</i>. p 11.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Roth et al. (1982) - Extracted from a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thatreligiousstudieswebsite.com/Articles/Philosophy_of_religion/Evil/roth_theodicy_protest2.html">review</a> of Roth's essay, in which the author comments that "Roth is painting a picture of God as the ultimate example of a bad and abusive parent!"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Janowski-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Janowski_15-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Janowski_15-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Janowski_15-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJanowski2000" class="citation book cs1">Janowski, Zbigniew (2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=2d3ekBs57jUC&pg=PA62"><i>Cartesian Theodicy: Descartes' quest for certitude</i></a>. Archives Internationales D'Histoire des Idees/International Archives of the History of Ideas. Springer. pp. 62–68. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7923-6127-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7923-6127-5"><bdi>978-0-7923-6127-5</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/LCCN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCCN (identifier)">LCCN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/99059328">99059328</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cartesian+Theodicy%3A+Descartes%27+quest+for+certitude&rft.series=Archives+Internationales+D%27Histoire+des+Idees%2FInternational+Archives+of+the+History+of+Ideas&rft.pages=62-68&rft.pub=Springer&rft.date=2000&rft_id=info%3Alccn%2F99059328&rft.isbn=978-0-7923-6127-5&rft.aulast=Janowski&rft.aufirst=Zbigniew&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D2d3ekBs57jUC%26pg%3DPA62&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMisotheism" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Paine1819-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Paine1819_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThomas_Paine1819" class="citation book cs1">Thomas Paine (1819). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vZYIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA4-PA13"><i>The Political and Miscellaneous Works of Thomas Paine ...</i></a> R. Carlile. pp. 4–.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Political+and+Miscellaneous+Works+of+Thomas+Paine+...&rft.pages=4-&rft.pub=R.+Carlile&rft.date=1819&rft.au=Thomas+Paine&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DvZYIAAAAQAAJ%26pg%3DRA4-PA13&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMisotheism" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bernard Schweizer, <i>Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism</i> (2010).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Iwan Bloch, <i>Marquis De Sade: His Life and Works</i> (2002), p. 216.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Transcript of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/print/faithandreason104_print.html">interview</a> with Anne Provoost by <a href="/wiki/Bill_Moyers" title="Bill Moyers">Bill Moyers</a> for his "Faith and Reason" PBS TV series</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.xtcidearecords.co.uk/lyrics/lyrics_details.php?trackid=125">"Dear God"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081211102657/http://www.xtcidearecords.co.uk/lyrics/lyrics_details.php?trackid=125">Archived</a> 2008-12-11 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, performed by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.xtcidearecords.com">XTC</a> (written by <a href="/wiki/Andy_Partridge" title="Andy Partridge">Andy Partridge</a>)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archives.depechemode.com/lyrics/blasphemousrumours.html">"Blasphemous Rumours"</a>, performed by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.depechemode.com">Depeche Mode</a> (written by Martin L. Gore)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.randynewman.com/tocdiscography/disc_sail_away/tocdiscography/disc_sail_away/lyricssailaway#godssong">"God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061113234311/http://www.randynewman.com/tocdiscography/disc_sail_away/tocdiscography/disc_sail_away/lyricssailaway">Archived</a> 2006-11-13 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, performed by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.randynewman.com/">Randy Newman</a> (written by Randy Newman)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFagen2013" class="citation book cs1">Fagen, Donald (22 October 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=G3jNqO2KB6EC&q=%22Godwhacker%22&pg=PT69"><i>Eminent Hipsters</i></a>. Penguin. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781101638095" title="Special:BookSources/9781101638095"><bdi>9781101638095</bdi></a> – via Google Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Eminent+Hipsters&rft.pub=Penguin&rft.date=2013-10-22&rft.isbn=9781101638095&rft.aulast=Fagen&rft.aufirst=Donald&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DG3jNqO2KB6EC%26q%3D%2522Godwhacker%2522%26pg%3DPT69&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMisotheism" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">From the educational resource pamphlet accompanying the presentation of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/museums/magnt/education/pdf/natsiaa_education_resource.pdf">23rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060916122845/http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/museums/magnt/education/pdf/natsiaa_education_resource.pdf">Archived</a> 2006-09-16 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="General_and_cited_references">General and cited references</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Misotheism&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: General and cited references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBlumenthal1993" class="citation book cs1">Blumenthal, David R. (1993). <i>Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest</i>. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993. p. 348. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-664-25464-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-664-25464-0"><bdi>0-664-25464-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Facing+the+Abusing+God%3A+A+Theology+of+Protest&rft.place=Louisville%2C+KY&rft.pages=348&rft.pub=Westminster+John+Knox+Press%2C+1993&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=0-664-25464-0&rft.aulast=Blumenthal&rft.aufirst=David+R.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMisotheism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEhrman2008" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Bart_D._Ehrman" title="Bart D. Ehrman">Ehrman, Bart D.</a> (2008). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/godsproblemhowbi00ehrm"><i>God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer</i></a></span>. New York, NY: HarperOne, 2008. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/godsproblemhowbi00ehrm/page/n311">304</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-117397-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-117397-4"><bdi>978-0-06-117397-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=God%27s+Problem%3A+How+the+Bible+Fails+to+Answer+Our+Most+Important+Question--Why+We+Suffer&rft.place=New+York%2C+NY&rft.pages=304&rft.pub=HarperOne%2C+2008&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-06-117397-4&rft.aulast=Ehrman&rft.aufirst=Bart+D.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fgodsproblemhowbi00ehrm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMisotheism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Mirabello, Mark, <i>The Crimes of Jehovah</i> (1997), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-884365-13-2" title="Special:BookSources/1-884365-13-2">1-884365-13-2</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNaylorJulianPinsonneault1994" class="citation book cs1">Naylor, Janet; Julian, Caroline; Pinsonneault, Susan (1994). <i>GURPS Religion</i>. Austin, TX: Steve Jackson Games, 1994. p. 176. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-55634-202-0" title="Special:BookSources/1-55634-202-0"><bdi>1-55634-202-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=GURPS+Religion&rft.place=Austin%2C+TX&rft.pages=176&rft.pub=Steve+Jackson+Games%2C+1994&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=1-55634-202-0&rft.aulast=Naylor&rft.aufirst=Janet&rft.au=Julian%2C+Caroline&rft.au=Pinsonneault%2C+Susan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMisotheism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPhillips2005" class="citation book cs1">Phillips, D. Z. (2005). <i>The Problem of Evil and The Problem of God</i>. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress, 2005. p. 280. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8006-3775-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-8006-3775-5"><bdi>0-8006-3775-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Problem+of+Evil+and+The+Problem+of+God&rft.place=Minneapolis%2C+MN&rft.pages=280&rft.pub=Augsburg+Fortress%2C+2005&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=0-8006-3775-5&rft.aulast=Phillips&rft.aufirst=D.+Z.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMisotheism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFProvoost2004" class="citation book cs1">Provoost, Anne (2004). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/inshadowofark00prov"><i>In the Shadow of the Ark</i></a></span>. Minneapolis, MN: Arthur A. Levine, 2004. p. 384. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-439-44234-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-439-44234-6"><bdi>0-439-44234-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=In+the+Shadow+of+the+Ark&rft.place=Minneapolis%2C+MN&rft.pages=384&rft.pub=Arthur+A.+Levine%2C+2004&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=0-439-44234-6&rft.aulast=Provoost&rft.aufirst=Anne&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Finshadowofark00prov&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMisotheism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoth1982" class="citation book cs1">Roth, John K.; et al. (1982). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/encounteringevil00devi/page/182"><i>Encountering Evil: Live Options in Theodicy</i></a>. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1982. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/encounteringevil00devi/page/182">182</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8042-0517-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-8042-0517-5"><bdi>0-8042-0517-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Encountering+Evil%3A+Live+Options+in+Theodicy&rft.place=Louisville%2C+KY&rft.pages=182&rft.pub=Westminster+John+Knox+Press%2C+1982&rft.date=1982&rft.isbn=0-8042-0517-5&rft.aulast=Roth&rft.aufirst=John+K.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fencounteringevil00devi%2Fpage%2F182&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMisotheism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRussell1957" class="citation book cs1">Russell, Bertrand (1957). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whyiamnotachrist00russ"><i>Why I Am Not A Christian</i></a></span>. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1957. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whyiamnotachrist00russ/page/266">266</a>. ASIN B000JX1TIK.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Why+I+Am+Not+A+Christian&rft.place=New+York%2C+NY&rft.pages=266&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster%2C+1957&rft.date=1957&rft.aulast=Russell&rft.aufirst=Bertrand&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fwhyiamnotachrist00russ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMisotheism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSutherland2006" class="citation book cs1">Sutherland, Robert (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151104014612/http://www.bookofjob.org/"><i>Putting God on Trial: The Biblical Book of Job</i></a>. Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing, 2006. p. 226. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4120-1847-1" title="Special:BookSources/1-4120-1847-1"><bdi>1-4120-1847-1</bdi></a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bookofjob.org">the original</a> on 2015-11-04<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2022-02-07</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Putting+God+on+Trial%3A+The+Biblical+Book+of+Job&rft.place=Victoria%2C+BC&rft.pages=226&rft.pub=Trafford+Publishing%2C+2006&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=1-4120-1847-1&rft.aulast=Sutherland&rft.aufirst=Robert&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bookofjob.org&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMisotheism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchweizer2010" class="citation book cs1">Schweizer, Bernard (2010). <i>Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism</i>. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. p. 246. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-975138-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-975138-9"><bdi>978-0-19-975138-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Hating+God%3A+The+Untold+Story+of+Misotheism&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=246&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press%2C+2010&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-0-19-975138-9&rft.aulast=Schweizer&rft.aufirst=Bernard&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMisotheism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchweizer2002" class="citation book cs1">Schweizer, Bernard (2002). <i>Rebecca West: Heroism, Rebellion, and the Female Epic</i>. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. p. 184. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-313-32360-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-313-32360-7"><bdi>0-313-32360-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rebecca+West%3A+Heroism%2C+Rebellion%2C+and+the+Female+Epic&rft.place=Westport%2C+CT&rft.pages=184&rft.pub=Greenwood+Press%2C+2002&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=0-313-32360-7&rft.aulast=Schweizer&rft.aufirst=Bernard&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMisotheism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWiesel1979" class="citation book cs1">Wiesel, Elie (1979). <i>The Trial of God</i>. 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Blumenthal</a> (Professor of Judaic Studies at <a href="/wiki/Emory_University" title="Emory University">Emory University</a> and author of <i>Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest</i>)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041031200636/http://www.philosophers.co.uk/portal_article.php?id=23">The moral imperative to rebel against God</a> by <a href="/wiki/Peter_S._Fosl" title="Peter S. Fosl">Peter S. Fosl</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20020307134049/http://www.philosophersnet.com/"><i>The Philosophers' Magazine</i></a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amherst.edu/askphilosophers/question/653">Why <i>isn't</i> Christianity considered evil?</a> (from the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amherst.edu/askphilosophers/">AskPhilosophers</a> forum at <a href="/wiki/Amherst_College" title="Amherst College">Amherst College</a>)</li></ul> <dl><dt>Literary</dt></dl> <ul><li>Account from the life of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.berdichev.org/god_on_trial.htm">Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev</a> that was part of the inspiration for Wiesel's "The Trial of God"</li> <li>Transcript of interview with <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070304025146/http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/wiesel/transcript.shtml">Elie Wiesel</a></li> <li>Anne Provoost's novel <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://anneprovoost.com/English/ArkFarers/ArkFarersBook.htm">In the Shadow of the Ark</a></i> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/print/faithandreason104_print.html">interview</a>)</li></ul> <dl><dt>Popular culture</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Carlin#Religion" class="extiw" title="q:George Carlin">George Carlin on God</a></li> <li>Lyrics to <a href="/wiki/Randy_Newman" title="Randy Newman">Randy Newman</a>'s "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061113234311/http://www.randynewman.com/tocdiscography/disc_sail_away/tocdiscography/disc_sail_away/lyricssailaway#godssong">God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)</a>"</li> <li>Lyrics to <a href="/wiki/Depeche_Mode" title="Depeche Mode">Depeche Mode</a>'s "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archives.depechemode.com/lyrics/blasphemousrumours.html">Blasphemous Rumours</a>"</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mrdeity.com">Mr. Deity</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211227001310/http://www.mrdeity.com/">Archived</a> 2021-12-27 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, a series of short videos by <a href="/wiki/Brian_Keith_Dalton" class="mw-redirect" title="Brian Keith Dalton">Brian Keith Dalton</a> depicting a bumbling and callously malicious God</li></ul> <dl><dt>Online/blogosphere</dt></dl> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hatinggod.com/">Introduction to literary misotheism, Q&A, and blog</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061018031418/http://www.goatstar.org/atrocities-committed-or-commanded-by-god/">Atrocities committed or commanded by God</a></li> <li><a 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deity" title="Deity">Deity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Divinity" title="Divinity">Divinity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gender_of_God" title="Gender of God">Gender of God</a> <i>and gods</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Goddess" title="Goddess">Goddess</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Numen" title="Numen">Numen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/God" title="God">Singular god</a><br />theologies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By faith</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/God_in_Abrahamic_religions" title="God in Abrahamic religions">Abrahamic religions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/God_in_the_Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith" title="God in the Baháʼí Faith">Baháʼí Faith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/God_in_Judaism" title="God in Judaism">Judaism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/God_in_Christianity" title="God in Christianity">Christianity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/God_in_Islam" title="God in Islam">Islam</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creator_in_Buddhism" title="Creator in Buddhism">Buddhism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/God_in_Hinduism" title="God in Hinduism">Hinduism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/God_in_Jainism" title="God in Jainism">Jainism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/God_in_Sikhism" title="God in Sikhism">Sikhism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahura_Mazda" title="Ahura Mazda">Zoroastrianism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Trinity" title="Trinity">Trinitarianism</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Athanasian_Creed" title="Athanasian Creed">Athanasian Creed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johannine_Comma" title="Johannine Comma">Comma Johanneum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Consubstantiality" title="Consubstantiality">Consubstantiality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homoousion" title="Homoousion">Homoousian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homoiousian" title="Homoiousian">Homoiousian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hypostasis_(philosophy_and_religion)" title="Hypostasis (philosophy and religion)">Hypostasis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perichoresis" title="Perichoresis">Perichoresis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shield_of_the_Trinity" title="Shield of the Trinity">Shield of the 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title="Fitra">Fitra</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">Heaven</a> / <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">Hell</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="By_religion" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By religion</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_eschatology" title="Buddhist eschatology">Buddhist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_eschatology" title="Christian eschatology">Christian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindu_eschatology" title="Hindu eschatology">Hindu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_eschatology" title="Islamic eschatology">Islamic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_eschatology" title="Jewish eschatology">Jewish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Divine_Incantations_Scripture" title="Divine Incantations Scripture">Taoist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frashokereti" title="Frashokereti">Zoroastrian</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Feminist_theology" title="Feminist theology">Feminist</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Women_in_Buddhism" title="Women in Buddhism">Buddhism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_feminism" title="Christian feminism">Christianity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_in_Hinduism" title="Women in Hinduism">Hinduism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_feminism" title="Islamic feminism">Islam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_feminism" title="Jewish feminism">Judaism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mormonism_and_women" title="Mormonism and women">Mormonism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goddess" title="Goddess">Goddesses</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Attributes_of_God_in_Christianity" title="Attributes of God in Christianity">Attributes of God in Christianity</a> / <a href="/wiki/God_in_Islam" title="God in Islam">in Islam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Binitarianism" title="Binitarianism">Binitarianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demiurge" title="Demiurge">Demiurge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Divine_simplicity" title="Divine simplicity">Divine simplicity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Divine_presence" title="Divine presence">Divine presence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egotheism" title="Egotheism">Egotheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exotheology" title="Exotheology">Exotheology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holocaust_theology" title="Holocaust theology">Holocaust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Godhead_in_Christianity" title="Godhead in 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title="Process theology">Process</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tian" title="Tian">Tian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unmoved_mover" title="Unmoved mover">Unmoved mover</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Names_of_God" title="Names of God">Names of God</a> in</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Christianity" title="Names of God in Christianity">Christianity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_titles_and_names_of_Krishna" title="List of titles and names of Krishna">Hinduism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Islam" title="Names of God in Islam">Islam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tirthankara" title="Tirthankara">Jainism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism" title="Names of God in Judaism">Judaism</a></li></ul> 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