These we shall rather call dystheists than atheists. Men in all nations and in all times have displayed more zeal and ability in pulling down the gods to their own level, than in raising themselves ever so toward the gods.
To be your strawman formulation it would have to be something like antitheism or perhaps dystheism.
2007, James J. Hughes, The Compatibility of Religious and Transhumanist Views of Metaphysics, Suffering, Virtue and Transcendence in an Enhanced Future, p. 16.
This thesis would be consistent with the theodical position that evil results from humans having been given free will in a created universe by a hands-off God (Polkinghorne, 2000), or that no human explanation of evil and suffering could be successful in understanding the mind and purposes of God (Kant, 1791), or even with "dystheism" or "maltheism," the view that God is not benevolent, and may even be malicious.
