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While atheists have now become public figures, there is another and perhaps darker strain of religious rebellion that has remained out of sight - people who hate God. In this book, Bernard Schweizer looks at men and women who do not question God's existence, but deny that He is merciful, competent, or good.
pt. 1. A brief history of misotheism -- pt. 2. Six case studies in literary misotheism. Absolute misotheism I : paganism, radicalism, and Algernon Swinburne's war against God ; Agonistic misotheism I : faith, doubt, and Zora Neale Hurston's resistance to God ; Agonistic misotheism II : bad fathers, historical crises, and Rebecca West's accusations against God ; Agonistic misotheism III : divine apathy, the Holocaust, and Elie Wiesel's wrestling with God ; Absolute misotheism II : perverse worshippers, divine avatars, and Peter Shaffer's attacks against God ; Absolute misotheism III : anticlericalism, deicide, and Philip Pullman's liberal crusade against God -- Conclusion.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index.
Hating god : the untold story of misotheism
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011