ABSTRACT
Freedom had become an increasingly central humanistic issue, no longer debated solely within the once-safe confines of Christianity. In this context, perhaps no theme exemplified by the Promethean myth has been more prevalent and influential than the theme of Promethean atheism and rebellion against the perceived tyranny of the gods – the God of Christianity – and the institutional religion which sanctioned such a conception of God. Process theism reveals the fundamental, indeed, ironic, flaw of Promethean atheism, namely, that the God atheists reject is a misrepresentation of God. The fundamental flaw at the heart of modern Promethean atheism, then, is that it is based on a false view of God which has been influenced far too much by Hellenistic thought and this, in turn, has rendered the problems of suffering and atheism unavoidable and yet unnecessary. This chapter shows a preliminary way that the neglect of process theism by traditional theists has consequences.
