![]() ![]() It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, I hope that I'm right in my belief. But it was misotheistic philogaster Thomas Nagel in his 1997 potboiler, The Last Word, who said the quiet part out load: I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. Bernard Schweizer admitted that his misotheism was his “religious dissent” against God. Camus demanded a concerted metaphysical rebellion against God. Other misotheists include Epicurus, Thomas Paine, James Mill, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marx, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Nietzsche, Freud, William Empson, Gore Vidal, Virginia Woolf, Algernon Swinburne, Zora Neale Hurston, Rebecca West, Elie Wiesel and Frank Shaffer. It was first recorded in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, which was first performed in 458 BC. The word is derived from the Greek misotheos ( μισόθεος - “hating God”). Misotheism is the “hatred of God” - rage at God’s permitting or perpetrating suffering and injustice. I will hinder and harm your creature on earth as far as I am able. Because you are unjust, unfair, unkind, I will block you, I swear it. ![]() ![]() … Because you choose for your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me for reward only the ability to recognize the incarnation. His envy even leads him to burn a crucifix cursing God saying: From now on we are enemies. In Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, the conniving, embittered and resentful Salieri conspires against his much more talented rival Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and God. ![]()
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