Misotheism
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Misotheism-greek (μίσος miso-hate, theism- of God, from Greek Θεός theos)-literally hatred of God or gods.
Misotheism in human history as expressed in a hatred of God or Gods and or a rejection of creation. Groups espousing a hatred of religion could also be called misotheists.
A classic example of misotheism can be found in Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick". The character of Captain Ahab is wholly shaped and driven by his hatred of God as personified in the White Whale.
"What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural lovings and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare? Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I. By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike. And all the time, lo! that smiling sky, and this unsounded sea!... “
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
