Is there a specific religious term for the belief "God exists and he is evil"?

IsoSpandy@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 316 points –

I am not an atheist, I genuinely believe that God exists and he is evil, like a toddler who fries little ants with a lens.

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Neither of those are necessarily true. For an Abrahamic god, sure, but one can certainly conceive of a god that doesn't define good and evil, and a god that defines good and evil and doesn't define itself as good.

I don't think I would even call a being like that "god", more like "evil spirit" or something.

These things aren't well-defined, so you're certainly welcome to, but I think most people would consider an omniscient, omnipotent creator of the universe to be a god and not a spirit.