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I'm curious why you would define your belief in terms of opposition to one deity in specific when human history is littered with gods, many of whom were huge assholes. How do you feel about, say, Zeus or Mithras or Ahura Mazda? 'Fuck all of 'em' is a position I can understand, but 'Fuck this one in specific and the rest are fine' just seems a little odd, ya know?
I think more broadly you could say I'm anti-demiurge, I guess I don't particularly hate the other gods but they're just jumped up elementals/spirits. Like, whatever, some guy demands to be worshipped in exchange for boons or to bestow curses or whatever. I think he's an asshole for lording his cool lightning powers over us, but I don't think he needs to be destroyed for it per se.
Demiurge in the Gnostic sense? Or is there some broader sense I'm not familiar with there?
So.. your position is that all gods are real according to their own cosmogony, and one of them in particular has pissed you off but the rest just don't rise to the level of being worth the effort of hating? My compliments, that's a pretty interesting position and one I've not seen before.
Well, no, my position is that gods could be real but none of them are worth worshiping.
Then, additionally, if there's some kind of omnipotent and omniscient Creator then it's evil and I hate it.
Ah, fair enough, that makes sense and I generally agree. I have my own beliefs and ideas about personified deities, but I agree, I dunno why some of these deities are even worshiped given their legacy of evil and assholery, so if they do really exist they should absolutely be opposed.