Meanings
- uncountableActions that are contrary to worship.
I have named this paradoxical position—a combination of belief and antiworship —as misotheism. The word is derived from the Greek root misos misos (for 'hatred') and theos (for 'God').
2013, Stephen Bullivant, Michael Ruse, The Oxford Handbook of Atheism, OUP Oxford, →ISBN2 more examples
God objects to paganism and idolatry because it is the ultimate act of antiworship, where humans create a god in their own image, or else humans create manageable gods that they think they can manipulate or control, or humans use the pantheon to legitimate the violence and machinations of mischievous monarchs.
2013, Michael F. Bird, Evangelical Theology: A Biblical and Systematic Introduction, Zondervan, →ISBNThere exists significant doubt about the practicability of an antibathing and antiworship campaign in a country with 800 million practicing Hindus who come to the river by the tens of millions each year to bathe and worship.
2014, Liam Leonard, Sya B. Kedzior, Occupy the Earth: Global Environmental Movements, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 106
Origin
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