Misotheism

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Misotheism is the "hatred of God" or "hatred of the gods" from the Greek adjective "hating the gods", a compound of "hatred" and "god". In some varieties of polytheism, it was considered possible to inflict punishment on gods by ceasing to worship them. Thus, Hrafnkell, protagonist of the eponymous Icelandic saga set in the 10th century, as his temple to Freyr is burnt and he is enslaved states that I think it is folly to have faith in gods, never performing another sacrifice, a position described in the sagas as goðlauss "godless". Jacob Grimm in his Teutonic Mythology observes that: 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.In monotheism, the sentiment arises in the context of theodicy the problem of evil, the Euthyphro dilemma. A famous literary expression of misotheistic sentiment is Goethe's Prometheus, composed in the 1770s, not coincidentally contemporary to the first modern expressions of atheism.

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