nobodaddy means the anthropomorphic God of Christianity.
Why “nobodaddy” is a great word
A derogatory name for the anthropomorphic, paternal God of orthodox Christianity, crafted to depict him as a tyrannical nonentity. Coined around 1793 by William Blake, it is a deliberate blend of *nobody* and *daddy*, reducing the divine patriarch to an absent father and a hollow authority. Unlike "Deity," a neutral and general term, or "Yahweh," a name treated with profound reverence, Nobodaddy is a satirical weapon of contempt for a figure perceived as petty, jealous, and inventively cruel. He is the vengeful old man in the clouds, the architect of arbitrary laws, the absentee landlord of a creation he despises—a portrait of power that is both terrifying and utterly empty, Blake's bitter recognition that the god of institutional power is nobody's daddy at all.
Etymology
Blend of nobody + daddy; c. 1793, William Blake.
noun
- The anthropomorphic God of Christianity.“Likewise, Blake's God is not a Nobodaddy God, the Jehovah of the Bible, who himself was good but created in an evil universe. God and evil in Blake are not individuals but states.”
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