Anger of God
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In many religions, anger is frequently attributed to God or gods. Primitive people held that gods were subject to anger and revenge in anthropomorphic fashion.<ref name="DictionaryofR"/> The Hebrew Bible says that opposition to God's Will results in God's anger.<ref name="DictionaryofR"> Shailer Mathews, Gerald Birney Smith, A Dictionary of Religion and Ethics, Kessinger Publishing, p.17</ref> The Hebrew Bible explains that:
God is not an intellectual abstraction, nor is He conceived as a being indifferent to the doings of man; and His pure and lofty nature resents most energetically anything wrong and impure in the moral world: "O Lord, my God, mine Holy One... Thou art of eyes too pure to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity."<ref name="Jewish"/>Christians also subscribe to the God's holiness and his anger in the sight of evil. This anger, they hold is not inconsistent with God's love. They also believe that the wrath of God comes to those who reject Jesus.<ref name="DictionaryofR"/>
In Islam, God's mercy outweighs his wrath or takes precedence of it.<ref> Gardet, L. Allāh., Encyclopaedia of Islam, Brill, 2007.</ref> The characteristics of those upon whom God's wrath will fall is as follows: Those who reject God; deny his signs; doubt the resurrection and the reality of the day of judgment; call Muhammad a sorcerer, a madman or a poet; do mischief, are impudent, do not look after the poor (notably the orphans); live in luxury or heap up fortunes; persecute the believers or prevent them from praying;...<ref> Raven, Wim, Reward and Punishment, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an, Brill, 2007 </ref>
