Is Misotheism = raw deal vs. spoiled expectations

[ManOnFire]

Misotheist - believes there exists a god or gods, but maintains a negative relationship with that god or gods.

My question is: At what point does someone have a negative relationship with God/gods based on his/her expectations? Keep in mind that these expectations will be strongly influenced by very negative unfortunate life experiences and circumstances which would cause an average person to react negatively to God. I completely sympathize in this scenario, but what if, on the other end of the spectrum, some people could be simply too spoiled with his/her expecations? I.E. If the parents make junior feel like he/she is god’s gift to the world, then how could junior ever find enough humility to seek God?

 

[ThinkingSapien]

Beats me. I’ve never encountered a God-Hater that didn’t have some personally traumatic or hurtful life experience that was seen as being God’s fault. The ones of which I know involved loved ones going through painful deaths.

I’ve seen people with a strong sense of entitlement (from being what I would evaluate as being “spoiled”, at least when compared to the limits to sense of entitlement that typically encounter) that felt victimized when life no longer provides those expected entitlements, but as of yet I’ve not encountered that making some one a God-hater.

I also think there are some behaviours that you might find in both ones that hate God and ones that don’t believe that God exists. For one that doesn’t believe actions that violate the first 4 commandments are some times done as a display of no concern for God. That could easily be interpreted as God-hatred.

 

[ManOnFire]

It’s easy to understand the feelings of those who have had a personally traumatic or hurtful life experience, but I see some kids who are anti-god because they believe that life should occur according to their expectations. When it doesn’t, they form a negative opinion of God instead of humbly opening the mind to ask if they themselves have a narrow view of expectations.

 

[tonyrey]

There is at least one misotheist: Satan! He must have thought he should have been given a better deal. Otherwise why would he have rebelled? It just goes to show that some are never satisfied and make themselves miserable unnecessarily:

1. The more they have the more they want
2. The more they want the more miserable they get.
3. The more miserable they get the more they want others to be miserable.
4. The more miserable others become the happier they become!

But it doesn’t end there because they want **everyone **to be miserable and they are doomed to be miserable forever because they will never make God (or those who love God) miserable…

 

[tonyrey]

There is at least one misotheist: Satan! He must have thought he should have been given a better deal. Otherwise why would he have rebelled? It just goes to show that some are never satisfied and make themselves miserable unnecessarily:

1. The more they have the more they want
2. The more they want the more miserable they get.
3. The more miserable they get the more they want others to be miserable.
4. The more miserable others become the happier they become!

But it doesn’t end there because they want **everyone **to be miserable and they are doomed to be miserable forever because they will never make God (or those who love God) miserable…

In “The more miserable others become the happier they become” they refers to those who want others to be miserable, not the ones who become more miserable.

My attempted clarification is probably as clear as mud. The complication arises from the vicious spiral of misotheism, misanthropy, misogyny and misery!

 

[nordskoven]

Misotheism as a reaction to trauma is wonderfully insightful: and trauma can be of course “negative” trauma or “positive” trauma. Death of pet goldfish might be negative trauma and parental programming that little johnny is god-like could be positive trauma, both exterior influences that set up a reactionary mindset. Thanks. That helps explain a lot of egomaniac misotheists…Good word.