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Washer reports converting to Christianity while studying at the University of Texas at Austin to become an oil and gas lawyer. [5] [6] He moved to Peru and served there as a missionary for 10 years. [7] In 1988, while in Peru, [8] Washer founded the HeartCry Missionary Society to support indigenous missionaries witnessing to people of their own ...
Bernard Schweizer's book Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism is devoted to this topic. He traces the history of ideas behind misotheism from the Book of Job, via Epicureanism and the twilight of Roman paganism, to deism, anarchism, Nietzschean philosophy, feminism, and radical humanism.
Blasphemous thoughts are a common component of OCD, documented throughout history; notable religious figures such as Martin Luther and Ignatius of Loyola were known to be tormented by intrusive, blasphemous or religious thoughts and urges. [27] Martin Luther had urges to curse God and Jesus, and was obsessed with images of "the Devil's behind."
In the context of the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, blasphemy against the Spirit is the sin of attributing to Satan what is the work of the Spirit of God, such as when the Pharisees earlier accused Jesus of driving out demons only by the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons. [25]
In some cases the original meanings of these minced oaths were forgotten; the oath 'struth (By God's truth) came to be spelled strewth. The oath Zounds and related Wounds changed pronunciation in the Great Vowel Shift, but the normal word wound did not (at least not in RP), so that they no longer sound like their original meaning of "By God's ...
Daniel Paul Schreber is an example of a supposed religious delusion occurring in a developed condition of psychosis. [32] Schreber was a successful and highly respected German judge until middle age, when he came to believe that God was turning him into a woman.
The theme of God's "death" became more explicit in the theosophism [clarification needed] of the 18th- and 19th-century mystic William Blake.In his intricately engraved illuminated books, Blake sought to throw off the dogmatism of his contemporary Christianity and, guided by a lifetime of vivid visions, examine the dark, destructive, and apocalyptic undercurrent of theology.
According to Abelard, "Jesus died as the demonstration of God's love", a demonstration which can change the hearts and minds of the sinners, turning back to God. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Beilby and Eddy note that Abelard was "challenged in his views by Bernard of Clairvaux , condemned by the Council of Sens (1140), and eventually excommunicated.