The leaders within organized religions have made people believe in images of angry gods demanding all sorts of sacrifices «as no one can live up to what that image wants of us». (nakedpastor.com)
People of faith thought that volcanoes were caused by angry gods. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
I believe this kind of thinking comes out of a extreme version of the forensic model of the atonement which casts as God an essentially angry God who is appeased by a loving gracious Son. (redeeminggod.com)