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Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.
Monotheism begins with a god who hates trees.
Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism
The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.
Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.
All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.
Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist.
If you get into really learning about the roots of monotheism, it was utterly a radical cultural moment. The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it.
There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.
It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But undoubtedly, Jewish ancestors were polytheists.
'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.