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I got the idea from various posts where people have said they don't even like the Christian God if he's real (didn't someone say he was like Azathoth?) and consider him some kind of monster.
I can see I totally got you guys wrong. Sorry to have underestimated your niceness.
For my own part, I think you're treating "being nice" and "liking the Christian God" and "hating Christians" and "wanting other people to hate God" and "only wanting other people to hate God" and "forcibly exterminating all morality" and various other things as much more tightly integrated concepts than they actually are, and it's interfering with your predictions.
So I suggest separating those concepts more firmly in your own mind.
Sort of related: The Two-Party Swindle and the concept of belief-as-identity.
To be fair, I'm sure a bunch of people here disapprove of some actions by the Christian God in the abstract (mostly Old Testament stuff, probably, and the Problem of Evil). But yeah, for the most part LWers are pretty nice, if a little idiosyncratic!
Azathoth (the "blind idiot god") is the local metaphor for evolution - a pointless, monomaniacal force with vast powers but no conscious goal-seeking ability and thus a tendency to cause weird side-effects (such as human culture).
Well, if there were an omnipotent Creator, I'd certainly have a few bones to pick with him/her/it...
Azathoth is how Eliezer described the process of evolution, not how he described the christian god.
She's possibly thinking about Cthulhu.
She's talking about TGGP. (Edited to change the link from this one.)
As far as I can tell, that post also uses 'Azathoth' for evolution.
Edited; thanks.