Talk:maltheism

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maltheism

As requested in section above. --Connel MacKenzie 09:08, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Not much out there, but there is some. One straightforward book hit:

1. 2001, Nicholas C. Prata, Dream of Fire, page 68:

   There's so much evil, in fact, that if your God lives, he himself must be wicked. Maltheism, I think they call it.

Dozens of hits in Google groups - here's a batch of discussions from 1985-86 (which seems to be the earliest time frame for use of the word), and a few dozen blog posts starting in 2005. bd2412 T 08:47, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

By the way, there is a similar level of support for maltheist (which would make no sense outside of there being a concept of maltheism), and a few groups hits (but no book hits) for maltheistic. bd2412 T 08:49, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

As of now, there are seven google books hits for the word. Note how google books reports "About 276 results", but only seven of those do contain the word. Two are ocr errors, and the rest is apparently included because google somehow concluded they are "topically related". Google, what are you doing to your search engine?? The more a search engine is designed to second-guess the user's intention, the more worthless it becomes. Google used to be a great research tool, but it now seems to be turning into Wolfram Alpha. --Dbachmann (talk) 11:37, 16 March 2012 (UTC)