‘Learn then that I, I alone, am God, and there is no god besides me. It is I who bring both death and life, I who inflict wounds and heal them. … With vengeance I will repay my foes and requite those ...

Rebellion is one of the “essential dimensions of man.” Those words by Albert Camus have long resonated in America, which has a history of producing folk-hero dissenters—Geronimo, Paul Revere, and Rosa ...

Schweizer, an associate professor of English at Long Island University (see InProfile in this issue), dissects the contemporary guard of angry atheists (Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris et al.) by placing ...

Hour of Penance don’t like religion. The title of their new album, Misotheism, literally means “hatred of the gods.” Totally unexplored territory in metal, I know. Twenty years into their chosen path ...

Hating God is a compelling chronicle burdened by an overblown thesis. Bernard Schweizer, a professor of English at Long Island University, contends that misotheism is the neglected species of ...

Editor’s Note: When we heard that Bernard Schweizer had written a book and was blogging about an iteration of “-theism” we had never even heard of, we invited him to do a guest stint at RD. He ...