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Some dystheists believe that God is dependent on the worship and adoration of human beings for his existence, and hope that if he is deprived of humanity's worship, he will wither up and die, leaving humanity better off. This is akin to the belief that whatever we worship is given a sort of spiritual substance through the act of worship. Thus, according to this belief, those who believe in the God of the Bible give him life and form through their worship, and thus they create a world where such a God influences life on earth. In contrast, those who withhold worship of that God, or who offer worship not to a that deity but to another help to solve the problem of evil in this world.
Dystheism seeks to encourage people of all religious persuasions to see God as evil, as opposed to how we wish him to be or how we have been taught to believe him to be. They would see it as a good thing if theophiles (those who worship God) were to stop worshipping him in any form.
If God is indeed evil, as the dystheists say, and if his goal is not the benefit of mankind, worshipping an evil God is a treasonous act against oneself and the entire human race, since it feeds the force that enslaves people in general, even if it causes the worshippers to gain some short-term benefit for themselves.
Dystheists are in direct opposition to eutheism (or " theophilia"), distancing themselves from the conclusion that anyone who believes in God must believe that he is good and worthy of human devotion.
According to dystheists, the eutheists have come through a process of indoctrination that teaches them to believe that God is good, to the point where they do not even think to question this idea, likening eutheism to a cult, noting that eutheist religion exhibits virtually all the symptoms found on classic cult checklists. They note a correlation between the behavior of theophiles and the Stockholm syndrome, wherein victims of kidnapping or long-term abuse come over time to think of their captor/torturer in a positive way.
To dystheists, this explains what they see as the irrational behavior of eutheists, which they consider similar to that of abused children who still love their abusive parents. Such parents frequently hurt their children both physically and emotionally, berate and belittle them, take credit for good things their children have accomplished, and blame their children for acts they themselves are responsible for, all the while trying to convince those children that they should think of this abuse as love. Dystheists contend that this is exactly what God tries to do to do the human race: he blames us for the existence of evil in a world he created, he tells us that we are inherently sinful and evil, he tries to teach us that we need salvation because of our supposed unworthiness, and he threatens us with eternal torture if we do not comply with his demands—but at the same time, he tells us that he is a benevolent loving God who cares about us deeply (see also George Carlin)