…those are my favorite comedic characters. I can only think of two right now; the most poplular and over-the-top being Mole from South Park: BLU and the main character from Our Lady of the Assasins. I know there has to be more, though, right?
Not exactly comedic, but there’s always Richard B. Riddick (“Escaped convict. Murderer.”) from Pitch Black :
A priest tells him, “Just because you don’t believe in God does not mean that God does not believe in you.”
He replies with, “You think someone can spend half his life in a slam with a horsebit in his mouth and not believe? Do you think he could start out in some liquor store trash bin with an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and not believe? You got it all wrong, holy man. I absolutely believe in god. And I absolutely hate the f*cker!”
EZ
The Mel Gibson character at the beginning of “Signs.”
Jesse Custer in Preacher. “Hate” may be too strong a word, but he’s unrelenting in his efforts to call God to account for his actions. Several other characters have a bone to pick with the almighty by the end of the series.
This passage from Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology comes off a bit strong on paper; in live performance, it’s jaw-dropping:
One of the vampires from Buffy talks about how he hates God and all his works, or words to that effect. He appeared in “Conversations With Dead People.”
Dracula from the ESSENTIAL TOMB OF DRACULA SERIES. Man, what a great villan.
Don’t forget Salieri in Amadeus.
Vlad Taltos in Steven Brust’s Taltos series.
I can’t tell if Mal Reynolds from Firefly still believes in God and hates him or doesn’t believe in him altogether.
“You’re welcome on my ship. God ain’t.”
I believe The Mole in the South Park movie hated God with a passion.
Kyle: Hey, Mole, be careful.
Mole: Careful? Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a clothes hanger while I was still in the womb?
Stan: Man, that kid is fucked up!
Martin Sheen went on an extended and excessively erudite bitchslam of God during an episode of West Wing.
Well, the obvious thing that comes to mind, because we just read it at school is Satan in Paradise Lost, who is of course basically Satan from the Bible.
Soren Kierkegaard?
Two pop into mind.
In Joseph Heller’s book God Knows, David ( of David and Goliath) has a long running feud with God.
And of course Jack Nicholson’s character in The Witches of Eastwick, but then again he is playing the devil.
James Morrow’s Corpus Dei series is full of this.
In Towing Jehovah, the body of God is found.
His existance having been established, a group of angry sufferers put Him on trial in Blameless in Abaddon.
Lucanus (Luke the Physician) in Taylor Caldwell’s DEAR AND GLORIOUS PHYSICIAN
(Of course, he gets over it once he encounters people who have encountered this strange Nazarene…)
The narrator of John Irving’s A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY, and also Owen Meany himself, may not actually hate God but they sure don’t trust Him. Same with most of the protagonists of Walker Percy’s novels.
Tori Amos’s persona in her religion-themed songs.
Some characters in John Carpenter’s VAMPIRES (and also the novel)-
paraphrased quote- “We hunt vampires for the Vatican. Of course we believe in God. We just don’t know what the f**k He’s doing.”
Interesting thread pizzabrat.
It brought to mind So Beautiful and Yet So Dangerous, by Angus McVie, which was serialized in Heavy Metal Magazine about 20 years ago. (The story in the movie is nothing like it) In it, some aliens and expatriated humans go on an oddysey throughout the universe, and at the end of the series, meet the universe’s most sentient being. Sissyphus, the alien who’s leading the expedition, breaks up an argument between the humans (one of whom is based on Woody Allen). They were arguing about who’s suffered more.
Sissyphus, who’s lived tens of thousands of years, can arguably say he’s suffered the most because he’s lived the longest. He asserts himself by saying he no longer brings himself down to God’s level. Then he clears his throat and says “And if I should find the spiteful little bastard, I WILL RAM HIS LITTLE TEDDY BEAR DOWN HIS FUCKING THROAT!!!” Then he leaves to hibernate until he regains his sense of humor.