Forcibly teleports Loki to the Young Avengers, Teleports a car in front of an asteroid so it crashes, Transports Hulkling's "mom" to the 616 from a completely different universe, Locates Bucky Barnes and teleports his teammates to him, Teleports people in close proximity to him. So am I supposed to repeat the same thing over and over again, too? Wiccan (real name William "Billy" Kaplan) is a comic book character, a member of the Young Avengers, a team of teenage superheroes in the Marvel Universe. [7] This is the God above the Demiurge, and manifests through the actions of the Demiurge. The earliest Gnostic sects ascribe the work of creation to angels, some of them using the same passage in Genesis. She returned to her own team, and swore revenge on the Young Avengers. Eventually he is to become the Demiurge, a being that will change the very fundamentals of magic in the past and the future. Something being made from a gods breath is standard prose about creation. ), c.360 BC. A. H. Armstrong identified the so-called "Gnostics" that Plotinus was attacking as Jewish and Pagan, in his introduction to the tract in his translation of the Enneads. Plato's work Timaeus is a philosophical reconciliation of Hesiod's cosmology in his Theogony, syncretically reconciling Hesiod to Homer.[1][2][3]. Demiurge. When his powers first manifested, he nearly killed someone. The team defeat the creature, but Wiccan's spell is still in tact. The confrontation led to a battle between Kang and the Young Avengers. And what else has the oh so overhyped Demiurge done? Among these heroes were the Young Avengers. (@ultraphoenix), https://twitter.com/spacekicker/status/1364588644032421889. Teleports his teammates who were spread out at the time mid-fight, so he has good accuracy when it comes to teleporting. As the Demiurge, Wiccan has the power to shape reality to his will. The Young Avengers were lured into a trap set by the Young Masters, who were waiting with Osborn's Dark Avengers to take down the YA. His inclusion on the team allowed the future X-Men to gain mastery over both science and magic. Special circumstance here as Hulkling was in mortal danger so he was angry. Wiccan, Speed, and Hulkling team up with Xavin and the Runaways to defeat the Super-Skrulls that are sent to assassinate Hulkling. He also has power over all realities and all possible worlds. Both Jarvis and the Hulk tried to sway them from taking such measures, but they refused, and unwittingly unleashed Kluh - the Hulk's Hulk. Although a fashioner, the demiurge is not necessarily the same as the creator figure in the monotheistic sense, because the demiurge itself and the material from which the demiurge fashions the universe are both considered consequences of something else. @demiurgekaplan: the entirety of multiversal demi urges feats come from statements about creating the utopia parallel. [28][43] In this most common form of Gnosticism the Demiurge had an inferior though not intrinsically evil function in the universe as the head of the animal, or psychic world. He is currently engaged to Teddy Altman, aka Hulkling. 2). The absurdities of the Gnostic doctrine of the fall of "Wisdom" (Sophia) and of the generation and activities of the Demiurge, maker of the visible universe (chs. In order to test if his feelings are genuine, the two agree to temporarily break up. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. 07:49AM Wiccan and the Young Avengers fought alongside the New Avengers to end the conflict. In Young Avengers vol. At full maturity, a Demiurge is stronger than any Nephalem, including one sired by an Arch-angel/demon and can use their unique powers to kill them with ease except not when one is using its true potential. Its existence was never retconned. In Battle of the Atom, a future version of the X-Men was depicted operating out of the Jean Grey School. And viewing his dimension in comic book format in order to banish mother. T. He recognizes that the Scarlet Witch may not be ready to be found and feels that he is happy enough with his present life. Sylvie was later kicked out. He avoided Kessler at all costs until one day he saw Kessler had found a new victim. 1012). At first, it was presumed that Billy was just an electrokinetic mutant with strong sorcery abilities. Vision confirmed the story of the twins. However, at this point in time, Wiccan doesn't have sufficient control over his powers to fully utilize the Demiurge's powers. Billy Kaplan never had a problem being different than other people. Iron Lad explained he needed help protecting himself from his future self, called Kang. In order to reconcile Aristotelian with Platonian philosophy,[5] Plotinus metaphorically identified the demiurge (or nous) within the pantheon of the Greek Gods as Zeus.[6]. Creates a solid energy construct to allow other people to travel on a platform, He can give other people the power of flight. For more information, please see our Thats a cute post though. The story isnt finished yet and theres multiple things pertaining her previous origin to even consider this an actual sound recton. The writers confirmed Raven's level of power on Twitter when I asked them! The one also in Immortal Wonder Woman? Realizing how hard Hulkling's life has been, Wiccan decides to do something to make it up to him, and finds an alterate universe's version of his Hulkling's mother, saving her before her death. Something to note is that Wiccan didn't know where he was teleporting to, so the spell probably just teleported him to safety. In Young Avengers vol. The ending panel for issue 3 is, Chavez "sister" revealing more people like her and America created by replicating America's mom's experiments. On Earth-91172, a world ravaged by the Hulk, Wiccan is a member of the Next Wave of Heroes - the last heroes of earth. After three months in exile, Wiccan and the team are approached by the former X-Man and mutant Prodigy, who tells them that Speed, Wiccan's twin brother, was kidnapped by a mysterious figure wearing a Patriot uniform. Wiccan continued as a member of the Young Avengers (now including Tommy as "Speed") until the events of Civil War and the Superhero Registration Act forced the team to go underground as part of Captain America's anti-registration team of superheroes. Later, Billy and Teddy joined the rest of their team, and helped the Avengers save what was left of Asgard. The Cathars held that the creator of the world, Satanael, had usurped the name of God, but that he had subsequently been unmasked and told that he was not really God."[48]. https://2.bp.blogspot.com/6Y934v-iG3NRpVANkwhqbJlExL9r9BuVDNqdz2XRNSEnmIMffLzVNOolz-NaFFXB9FKrzqUThvKZK_DX_eR5-74KBCLwCD8WVZWNPL3NGgba1NKocwdrWzk-kHtsYnxisKM_Zkg06Q=s1600. They insanely overrated wiccan. Teleports an entire prisoner van to a secure SHIELD location. (Kick Duck Dancing) 16:52 GG - Petrivka 19:49 Daniel Christian ft. Kolly Dee - Slava Ukraine 23:19 Andrew StetS feat. Tanks eye beams from Sentry, and comes out unscathed. When he does, multiple fights break out between the various groups trying to capture the Scarlet Witch. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for: Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Billy's issues escalated as he grew older and entered high school where his differences became the source of endless torment and violence. Unable to allow another to suffer Kessler's abuse in his place, he confronted Kessler. Ridiculous arrogance of the Gnostics who refuse to acknowledge the hierarchy of created gods and spirits and say that they alone are sons of God and superior to the heavens (ch. Criticism of the attempts to multiply the hypostasis, and especially of the idea of two intellects, one which thinks and that other which thinks that it thinks. The ordering principle is twofold; there is a principle known as the Demiurge, and there is the Soul of the All; the appellation "Zeus" is sometimes applied to the Demiurge and sometimes to the principle conducting the universe. Until that happens youre argument isnt gonna work its just loud at the point. The Ophites held that he and his demons constantly oppose and thwart the human race, as it was on their account the devil was cast down into this world. You're like one of those Supes Prime One Million fanboys. John D. Turner, professor of religious studies at the University of Nebraska, and famed translator and editor of the Nag Hammadi library, stated[55] that the text Plotinus and his students read was Sethian Gnosticism, which predates Christianity. You then who are spiritual should worship neither the creation nor the Craftsman, but the Father of Truth. The Valentinian theory elaborates that from Achamoth (he kt sopha or lower wisdom) three kinds of substance take their origin, the spiritual (pneumatiko), the animal (psychiko) and the material (hyliko). Loki tells them that they need his help in order to destroy the parasite, and they agree. He has received two figures to date, one of which depicted his most well known costume, and the other of which depicted his original Asgardian outfit. Wiccan, Speed, and Hulkling team up with Xavin and the Runaways to defeat the Super-Skrulls that are sent to assassinate Hulkling. In one of the many dark possible futures shown to Immortus by The Time Keepers; William and Thomas had become tyrannical God-like superhumans who were seen launching a devastating assault on Eternity in an attempt to overthrow him. For he said, 'I am God and there is no other God beside me,' for he is ignorant of his strength, the place from which he had come. As the full-powered Demiurge, he casually removes Mother from existence, who is an extremely powerful matter manipulator, and removes everyone from the pocket dimension into the main universe. Thus, in such systems, the Demiurge acts as a solution to (or, at least possibly, the problem or cause that gives rise to) the problem of evil.[14]. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll Acts as a safeguard while the Scarlet Witch and Doom try to access the Earth's Life Force, which is what gave HoM Wanda her powers. Comic Vine users. As a Kree, Hulkling was to be enlisted in the Kree army, by force if necessary. Whereas Plato's Demiurge is good wishing good on his creation, Gnosticism contends that the Demiurge is not only the originator of evil but is evil as well. The Young Avengers later encountered both Kate Bishop and the daughter of the late Ant Man (Scott Lang), Cassie Lang. pantheism). View full history. However the utopian parallel was still created by the demiurge. All traits of a character are used for calculating the Classification. Demiurge Wiccan has more impressive feats. This tradition of creator God as nous (the manifestation of consciousness), can be validated in the works of pre-Plotinus philosophers such as Numenius, as well as a connection between Hebrew and Platonic cosmology (see also Philo).[11]. Wiccan and Hulkling are thrown into a prison outside their dimension, but are rescued by Loki. A massive spell cast by Billy brought in evil clones of the Young Avengers that distracted Mother and allowed their remaining teammates and the rest of the team to escape again, but Mother added the clones to her army.Wiccan quit the Young Avengers after that, convinced, through a manipulative suggestion of Loki's, that Wiccan and Hulkling were and apparently if he can't hear himself chanting the spell, it won't cast. The word demiurge is an English word derived from demiurgus, a Latinised form of the Greek or dmiurgs. Doctor Strange has also claimed that Wiccan has the potential to be the next Sorcerer Supreme. New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 3 : All Songs Considered The best albums out this week include Kali Uchis' Red Moon in Venus, a self-titled joint from the Jamaican American artist . However, the act only attracted unwanted press. In this future, he is the Sorcerer Supreme. Wiccan can rewrite the rules of magic across all realities. None of which are multivetsal. As the Demiurge, Wiccan completely eradicated Mother and every threat she had created in Young Avengers #13 by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie. Unable to control them, he electrocuted Kessler, nearly killing him. The philosophical usage and the proper noun derive from Plato's Timaeus, written c.360 BC, where the demiurge is presented as the creator of the universe. He IS omniversal. The battle culminated with Iron Lad killing Kang which altered the past and present. It's also not in English like normal. Eaglemoss released a painted figurine of Wiccan. Sylvie revealed to them that she was not actually from Asgard, but that she woke up one morning with powers. [28][42] And as Achamoth herself was only the daughter of Sopha the last of the thirty Aeons, the Demiurge was distant by many emanations from the Propatr, or Supreme God. Thus the real Hulkling (disguised as the Super-Skrull) was able to stay on Earth. Billy of the Young Avengers, son of the Scarlet Witch and brother to Speed and that's pretty cool, also I'm gay. Not to mention she proves that she can inhibit America's powers by dosing her with a counter serum. The only other thing he ever did was wipe out a dimensional parasite, that is at best as powerful as any other entity ruling their own dimension like Mephisto or the like, but likely considerable weaker. The true doctrine about Universal Soul and the goodness of the universe which it forms and rules (chs. The main character refers to the Demiurge as the entity who "fashioned and shaped" the material world. In this one-shot about the final adventure of the Avengers, Billy Maximoff chose to be a villain, calling himself the Grim Reaper. The impossible son of a witch and a synthezoid, Billy Kaplan was always going to be powerful, but Young Avengers - from writer Kieron Gillen and mainstay artist Jamie Mckelvie - revealed that Wiccan is actually the Demiurge, a force of life and magic who, when he comes of age, will redefine the rules of magic and become functionally omnipotent. The Young Avengers agreed that in order for reality to stabilize, Iron Lad must return to his own time. Turner, "Gnosticism and Platonism", in Wallis & Bregman. But Yaldabaoth, the Demiurge, with the material world, will be cast into the lower depths. Plotinus specifically points to the Gnostic doctrine of Sophia and her emission of the Demiurge. The Demiurge will rewrite the rules of magic and all the implications of that decision will echo forward and backward across all realities. Armstrong alluding to Gnosticism being a Hellenic philosophical heresy of sorts, which later engaged Christianity and Neoplatonism.[53][54]. (ch. The Superhero Database Classification number, or SHDB Class, is a number that represents the overall 'power' of a character. In Middle Platonist and Numenius's Neo-Pythagorean cosmogenies, the Demiurge is second God as the nous or thought of intelligibles and sensibles[4] (Middle Platonism and Neo-Pythagoreanism overlapped: both originating in the early 1st century BC and extending through to the end of the 2nd century AD or even into the 3rd century). After defeating Mr. Hyde, Patriot admitted that he had not inherited his grandfather's Super Soldier abilities and promptly quit the Young Avengers. With a thought, he puts a group of bad guys in a coma. Billy did not take Scarlet Witch's advice. Plotinus' form of Platonic idealism is to treat the Demiurge, nous, as the contemplative faculty (ergon) within man which orders the force (dynamis) into conscious reality. Theyre was never a recton that changed how the utopian parallel was created cause according to these recent America comics which still say and show that the demiurge I.e William Kaplan (Wiccan). He has received some form of training from Loki during his time in the Young Avengers, so he may take less time to cast his spells and have better control. Wiccan's primary team is the Young Avengers, so any given volume of Young Avengers will feature him heavily. While still trying to decide how to continue their activities while staying under the radar of the New Avengers, Hulkling was kidnapped by the Super-Skrull. Dark Reign During the events of Dark Reign, Billy and the other. The Super-Skrull killed Hulkling's foster mother and captured Hulkling to his ship to take him back to the Skrull Empire. After they teleported, there was also a huge lightning bolt that staggered the Avengers. Refutation of objections from the inequalities and injustices of human life (ch. Level 3: While Wiccan has the Power of the Demiurge, all of his matches will destroy their row or column. Wiccan becomes the target of all enemy attacks. Plotinus sought to reconcile Aristotle's energeia with Plato's Demiurge,[5] which, as Demiurge and mind (nous), is a critical component in the ontological construct of human consciousness used to explain and clarify substance theory within Platonic realism (also called idealism). Lol @ "universal" demiurge wiccan. Plotinus criticizes his opponents for "all the novelties through which they seek to establish a philosophy of their own" which, he declares, "have been picked up outside of the truth";[50] they attempt to conceal rather than admit their indebtedness to ancient philosophy, which they have corrupted by their extraneous and misguided embellishments. Completely knocks out the Wrecking Crew. Philo had inferred from the expression "Let us make man" of the Book of Genesis that God had used other beings as assistants in the creation of man, and he explains in this way why man is capable of vice as well as virtue, ascribing the origin of the latter to God, of the former to his helpers in the work of creation.[17]. Billy and the Young Avengers are the first team to respond to invading Skrulls in New York. Wiccan appears as a playable character in Marvel Future Fight. He is blind to all that is spiritual, but he is king over the other two provinces. He was angry here so there were no spell chants. The battle was negotiated when the Super-Skrull disguised himself as Hulkling and agreed to spend time with each empire before deciding which to join. He and Teddy continue to be in a relationship. Understanding that there was no choice, Iron lad returned to the future, bidding his teammates farewell. These are either hyliko or pneumatiko. As "Asgardian" he limited his abilities to that of flight and lightning projection. Gnosticism attributed falsehood or evil to the concept of the Demiurge or creator, though in some Gnostic traditions the creator is from a fallen, ignorant, or lesserrather than evilperspective, such as that of Valentinius. [28], In creating this world out of Chaos the Demiurge was unconsciously influenced for good; and the universe, to the surprise even of its Maker, became almost perfect. Wiccan would spend much of his time bouncing from team to team. All matches made by Wiccan will clear their row or column, dealing damage and generating AP. This article is about philosophical concept of a Universal Fashioner. Read the scan I posted above. Theodoret,[25] who here copies Irenaeus, turns this into the plural number "powers", and so Epiphanius of Salamis[26] represents Cerinthus as agreeing with Carpocrates in the doctrine that the world was made by angels. Sophia (Greek: , lit. A partially powered Demiurge (aka the Semiurge) holds off Mother's attacks Fully turns into the Demiurge through the power of love As the full-powered Demiurge, he casually removes Mother from existence, who is an extremely powerful matter manipulator, and removes everyone from the pocket dimension into the main universe. Wiccan quite literally became the cosmos from within Mother's dimension, able to flip through time and reality as if they were comic book panels. The devil resides in this lower world, of which he is the prince, the Demiurge in the heavens; his mother Sophia in the middle region, above the heavens and below the Pleroma.[45]. Wiccan is capable of a variety of feats, including, but not limited to: In House of M, Wanda recreated her sons William and Thomas as the younger members of the Magnus family. Having no other choice, Wiccan and the team decide to leave New York. It was here that Billy revealed to Teddy that Norse myths have always had a special meaning for him because his father used to read them to him at night. Unkindness has fewer feats and it took her a whole longer to destroy the multiverse. But the devil, as being a spirit of wickedness, is able to recognise the higher spiritual world, of which his maker the Demiurge, who is only animal, has no real knowledge. 2. Wiccan. Here he uses an offensive spell but he doesn't repeat the spell. One night, Billy was angry at his father for no good reason, and yelled at him, telling him never to read to him again. Coat of Arms refused to leave her team, but Enchantress graciously accepted. He joined Ultron in attacking the Avengers. The Super-Skrull noted that Wiccan seemed to have inherited the Scarlet Witch's magical and reality-warping abilities while Tommy has those of her twin brother, Quicksilver. You can continue to delude yourself Wiccan is universal let alone multiversal. Wiccan and the rest of the Young Avengers (excluding Stature) decided not to register, Hawkeye and Patriot serving with the underground resistance team known as the Secret Avengers. Sometime later, Billy is targeted by the Vridai, a race of shapeshifters expelled from their home during War of the Realms. In this act of separate creation, she gave birth to the monstrous Demiurge and, being ashamed of her deed, wrapped him in a cloud and created a throne for him within it. 14). 09:51 Andrew Stets ft. Soncesvit - Gutsul. By stating an intent and focusing on the outcome. Loki convinces Wiccan to temporarily give him some of his powers, and Wiccan agrees, seeing no other choice. They are rescued by Noh-Varr and Kate Bishop, and the team flees to Central Park in order to avoid bringing too many people into the spell. Plotinus also elucidates the equation of matter with nothing or non-being in The Enneads[9] which more correctly is to express the concept of idealism or that there is not anything or anywhere outside of the "mind" or nous (c.f. It was in this moment that Osborn called in the big gun. Demiurge Wiccan has more impressive feats. Defends against Lucy in the Sky, a strong energy projector, His shield protected him from a giant Skrull with the powers of Giant Man enough so he doesn't die, His most recent self can tank the likes of the Wrecker with his crowbar. Timaeus describes the Demiurge as unreservedly benevolent, and so it desires a world as good as possible. That night, however, the woman attacks Wiccan's parents. In that series, Wanda and Vision conceive twin sons. Wiccan doesn't have sufficient control over his powers to fully utilize the Demiurge's powers. The team was split up, running rescue missions, relief missions, and interference across Asgard. Kat Farrell of the Daily Bugle was at the scene, dubbing them the "Young Avengers" and after reporting to J. Jonah Jameson of the Daily Bugle he decided to put Jessica Jones on the assignment of finding out who they were. The Demiurge, having received a portion of power from his mother, sets about a work of creation in unconscious imitation of the superior Pleromatic realm: He frames the seven heavens, as well as all material and animal things, according to forms furnished by his mother; working, however, blindly and ignorant even of the existence of the mother who is the source of all his energy. Thomas ended up as the son of the Shepard family while William ended up as the son of the Kaplan's family. To this Messiah, however, was actually united with Jesus the Saviour, Who redeemed men. Billy scoffed at her advice and told her maybe if he had powers like her he could. In the show, Wanda gives birth to Billy and his twin brother Tommy after moving to Westview to start a new life with Vision. But it is only the name that can be said to be specially Valentinian; the personage intended by it corresponds more or less closely with the Yaldabaoth of the Ophites, the great Archon of Basilides, the Elohim of Justinus, etc. Demiurge Prime Marvel Universe (Earth-616) Others Others Billy Kaplan Moridun Year 20XX destroyed by Moridun (Earth-16364) Categories Categories: Disambiguation Pages Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Wiccan is a playable character in the MMO game, Wiccan appears as a playable character in. It's existence has been retconned hence he has no such feats. During the events of Dark Reign, Billy and the other Young Avengers encounter another group of superpowered teenagers running around using the name "Young Avengers". Tanks eye beams from Sentry, and comes out unscathed. Plotinus argues of the disconnect or great barrier that is created between the nous or mind's noumenon (see Heraclitus) and the material world (phenomenon) by believing the material world is evil. A woman jogger passed by and asked him if he was okay because she saw the boy was bleeding. Superhero Class. Wiccan and the others were eventually rescued by their teammates and continued avoiding registration. In the Archontic, Sethian, and Ophite systems, which have many affinities with the doctrine of Valentinus, the making of the world is ascribed to a company of seven archons, whose names are given, but still more prominent is their chief, "Yaldabaoth" (also known as "Yaltabaoth" or "Ialdabaoth"). Gnosticism presents a distinction between the highest, unknowable God or Supreme Being and the demiurgic "creator" of the material, commonly identified as Yahweh, the God of the Hebrew Bible. During their time traveling through dimensions, Hulkling becomes worried that Wiccan's powers might be responsible for their relationship, a theory proposed by Loki. [18] So Irenaeus tells[19] of the system of Simon Magus,[20] of the system of Menander,[21] of the system of Saturninus, in which the number of these angels is reckoned as seven, and[22] of the system of Carpocrates. The Runaways rebuked their offer, but joined together when Karolina Dean, the Skrull Xavin, Hulkling and Wiccan were captured by agents of a secret alien-observation base called The Cube. and our A bit desperate too. His analysis showed the unattested Aramaic term to have been fabulated and attested only in a single corrupted text from 1859, with its claimed translation having been transposed from an the reading of an earlier etymology whose explanation seemingly equated 'darkness' and 'chaos' when translating an unattested supposed plural form of Hebrew: , romanized:bhu. Wiccan was greatly convinced that their connection to the Scarlet Witch was evident, though Tommy was more skeptical. Here he uses an offensive spell but he doesn't repeat the spell. As Wiccan, he joined the Young Avengers and learned he was the reincarnated son of Scarlet Witch and Vision. Sam Wilson and his newly Inverted Avengers shrunk all the gathered heroes down using Pym particles extracted from the Wasp (presumably against her will) and trapped them all in one of Hank Pym's microscopic ant farms, thereby taking care of the "liability". (sorry i'm clueless but if this was true wouldn't that make him like the most powerful person in the universe? The figure of the Demiurge emerges in the theoretic of Iamblichus, which conjoins the transcendent, incommunicable One, or Source. During this battle, Billy revealed his ability to cast spells where he had previously limited himself to lightning projection and flight due to his inexperience. And how many more times to I have to tell you the visual depiction of interacting with comic panels does not matter? He should curb here. Generally though, I'd agree with the take that trying to compare the power of two nebulously defined reality warpers is a bit silly. Loki's hand is revealed, and Billy is locked in battle with Mother. He has spent time on numerous super hero teams, including the Young Avengers and the New Avengers. Since that night, Billy's father never did. Once Scarlet Witch had heard the full story of his troubles at school, she told him that next time he was threatened the best thing to do would be to stand up to Kessler. The false team, dubbed Young Avengers Lite by Billy, states their intention to continue to fight crime. It is in the system of Valentinus that the name Dmiurgos is used, which occurs nowhere in Irenaeus except in connection with the Valentinian system; we may reasonably conclude that it was Valentinus who adopted from Platonism the use of this word. 1618).". Didnt this Raven end her universe? In the Nag Hammadi text On the Origin of the World, the three sons of Yaldabaoth are listed as Yao, Eloai, and Astaphaios.[31]. It's literally all from the same run. Several systems of Gnostic thought present the Demiurge as antagonistic to the will of the Supreme Being: his act of creation occurs in an unconscious semblance of the divine model, and thus is fundamentally flawed, or else is formed with the malevolent intention of entrapping aspects of the divine in materiality. For other uses, see. It appears that Plotinus attempted to clarify how the philosophers of the academy had not arrived at the same conclusions (such as dystheism or misotheism for the creator God as an answer to the problem of evil) as the targets of his criticism.