Misotheism

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What are your thoughts on the concept of Misotheism? Unlike Atheism which is the belief that no god exists, Misotheism is the belief that the gods are indeed real but that they are all basically evil beings.

Old Testament God with his genocidal tendancies gives critics of Chtistanity every legit reason in the world to hate him.

And how 'bout them ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses? Zeus the serial rapist, his wife Hera the "protector of women" ....except for the women who caught her hubby's wondering eye. It's almost like every God and Goddess in Ancient Greece was either a violent rapist or a petty b**** with strong narcissism traits.

I could probably list a lot more examples of the terrible things the gods of our world have done that makes me question if any of them are truly worthy of worship?

Maybe if they are real they're basically just like our politicians? The great majority of them are terrible people and are best avoided as much as possible.

What do you guys think?

I'm not a misotheist, I'm a non-theist.

I think there was some kind of evolution in the minds of human societies from capricious gods to moralising gods. I don't know why it happened, but maybe this article gives a clue or two:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1043-4

Not that I think any supernatural things beings have ever existed. I have a certain disdain for whoever wrote the nastier parts of the Bible, but naturally I can't hate a god that as far as I'm concerned doesn't exist. Even if there was an all-powerful, all-wise, all-loving deity, I can't imagine that such a lovely entity would lower itself to enjoying the sight of people worshipping it. I've never worshipped anything and I hope I never have to. My heart wouldn't be in it. I can praise and give credit where I see that it's due, but that worship thing takes it to another level - one that I see as something of an insult to the worshipper and the worshipped.

I find misotheism an amusing hypothesis, but not a particularly compelling one.

I feel like if a god or gods existed, but also completely had it in for us, things would be much worse than they are.

I guess what I really mean to say is regardless if Lilith is real or not, she was never concieved by human minds to be "benovolent" in any sense of the word. She was always meant to purely malific from the time ancient humans invented her in Mesopotamia.

People project their problems on what they worship.
"Hey, God does it, so I'm OK too!! !"
And what follows is usually this:
"God hates them people, so I hate them too!"

Theism but with hate and blame directed towards gods and higher power?

Hmmm...

I think either this person of such beliefs is just unlucky and blames everything except themselves or believes earth is hell or a prison with higher power or gods as a warden/judge, not a (inanely difficult) school.

Maybe misconstrued by applying and judging them by the conventional human morality towards these higher beings.
And if they're a bit too empathetic, it is likely subscribed to anti-natalism as an act of defiance towards them.

How do I feel about misotheism?
I don't know. Beliefs are beliefs. It doesn't particularly cross with me.
They can love gods, fear gods, hate gods, don't care about gods, believe them to exists in any form, believe them to not exists. They're the same to me.



Anecdotes of other people around me IRL tells me that they believe that they're prone into demonic possessions and curses, may throw themselves into irresponsibility, hedonism and commiting crimes.

While they hate god, they still believe in god and therefore can yet to overcome that hate and possibly redeem themselves back into loving god.

They'd still compare atheists are worse off though, and believe that demons don't have to make things harder for them since they're going to hell for their disbelief anyways.


In any case, I only swore towards higher power once.
Just once. Out of severe frustration.

I'm not sure if it's blame, but it certainly isn't hate, suspicion or judgment.
Disappointment and annoyance perhaps, maybe a cry for help.

For the same reasons why I rant and whine around this forum.

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Both interesting points.

If I had the talent I would write my own fantasy world story in a Misotheistic style where the gods and goddesses people worship are real but are the actual evil villains of the story who have spread lies to their followers and causing wars and disasters for their own amusement.

Maybe create a trinity of not-so-holy gods?

A god of light, law, order, and justice

A god of darkness, crime, chaos, and injustice

A goddess of love, compassion, mercy, and motherhood.


The twist of course being that they're all equally bad and the hero of the story is the only one who confronts them.