theophobist

Updated: May 22, 2025

We have really to do with a theophobist, whom faith in goodness rouses to a fury of contempt. In order to hasten the deliverance of the world, he kills all consolation, all hope, and all illusion in the germ, and substitutes for the love of humanity which inspired Cakyamouni, that Mephistophelian gall which defiles, withers, and corrodes everything it touches.

Henri Frédéric Amiel - Amiel's Journal