Atheism or misotheism?

...if God is nothing but silence and inaction, then there is no God.

John K. Roth

from "Hating God", Bernard Schweizer, The Chronicle Review, December 10, 2010

Why, but why should I bless Him? In every fiber I rebelled.  Because He has had thousands of children burned in His pits?...I was the accuser.  God the accused.

Elie Wiesel, Night


from "Hating God", Bernard Schweizer, The Chronicle Review, December 10, 2010

...the hurt that God has done to the world is too great for any forgiveness...One hates our fathers for having committed themselves to such a worship and wonders how they would have fancied god was kind.

Rebecca West after World War I

from "Hating God", Bernard Schweizer, The Chronicle Review, December 10, 2010