The ideological clash between monotheism and polytheism furnishes the world with one of its first examples of asymmetrical warfare. |
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If used to designate eternal distinctions in God, it leads to tritheism, which is a form of polytheism. |
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Shinto, which has a background of polytheism, by means of exclusivist religious teaching, became a “socio-political religion”. |
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Every religion and value system was restricted, and polytheism was strengthened to destroy real tolerance and compromise. |
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In polytheism various religious views and values are recognized, and are thought of as moving towards their mutual existence. |
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Naturally, he regarded the pagan Platonists as mistaken in accepting polytheism, everlasting world-cycles, and the transmigration of souls. |
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Hopefully you can see that these cults were an amalgamation of Hebrew monotheism and Egyptian and Sumerian polytheism. |
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Avraham was trying to start the spread of monotheism in place of polytheism. |
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The latter believed in caste system and untouchability, polytheism, idolatry, etc. |
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Moderns have imagined him a monotheist, but he seems rather to have preached a harmonious polytheism, without conflict among the gods. |
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Certainly, polytheism tolerates and is receptive to the existence of many gods. |
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Atheism, skepticism, polytheism, materialism, pantheism, and impersonalism are by their nature contrary to love. |
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In many circles of the Qawwal, tribute is paid to the mystic in words that entail transgression in terms of polytheism. |
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I am persuaded a more powerful impulse to polytheism arises from the co-action of two natural principles in the absence of a knowledge of God in Christ. |
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Similarly, it knows nothing of ancestor worship, polytheism, diviners or demons, all of which are attested to in various forms in earlier Israelite popular religion. |
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He purges them of all traces of polytheism, idol worship and superstition and all that is associated with these rituals, habits and traditions which are unworthy of man. |
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Atheism and polytheism are extremist distortions of this central truth. |
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This concession to polytheism greatly pleased the pagans, and when Muhammad reached the last verse of the Sura, they joined in the prostration enjoined there. |
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When his followers are resistant to his demand to abandon polytheism and worship one God instead, he resorts to the cave where the angel has spoken to him before. |
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In reality, monolatry is a form of polytheism because it accepts the possibility that other people have other gods. |
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And if she finds herself interested in a religion, it is in the limbo of Egyptian polytheism that she feeds her creative inspiration. |
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As for the judgment of sin being entrusted to the public assembly rather judging for oneself, at first glance polytheism really seems to show tolerant justice. |
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The biblical world, however, does not assume the existence of polytheism. |
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Propositionally, we’ve demonstrated that monotheism is more credible than polytheism, and that supernaturalism is more likely than mere naturalism. |
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Unlike animism or polytheism, monotheism is a reasonable proposition. |
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The nineteenth century notions of the evolution of religion from primitive animism to polytheism to monotheism have been falsified in tribe after tribe all over the world. |
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Roy used the philosophical ideas found in the earliest Hindu scriptures to criticize the polytheism and some of the practices of popular Hinduism, such as sati. |
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He is One in the true sense of the word that has no room for the concept of trinity, or for any other form of camouflage monotheism or a disguised polytheism. |
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The inhabitants, also, of Ur had fallen into polytheism, or, if we may so speak, allotheism, the worship of other gods. |
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That a pagan like Clovis could ask Christ for help shows the adaptability of Germanic polytheism. |
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Anciently, the religion of the Cornish Britons was Celtic polytheism, a pagan, animistic faith, assumed to be led by Druids in full or in part. |
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During the Iron Age, Celtic polytheism was the predominant religion in the area now known as England. |
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I consider that in the first commandment where atheism and polytheism and allotheism are forbidden directly and principally. |
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Real polytheism, that of the ancients, offers much richer and deeper explanations of the nature of the gods than any theology of recent invention. |
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The choice of either monotheism or polytheism, however, leads to problems, because neither can give a satisfactory answer to all questions that may reasonably be put. |
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It has consistently rejected polytheism and atheism. |
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Lambert rightly emphasizes the magnitude of the task of Christianizing the British Isles, which were deeply rooted in polytheism. |
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This term has recently been championed by Japanese essayists on the same grounds as polytheism, in opposition to the overweening supremacy of Western monotheism. |
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In any case, in the mind of some of those who promote the multiverse, new cosmology seems to be more sympathetic with polytheism than with monotheism. |
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As well as pantheism and duotheism, many Wiccans accept the concept of polytheism, thereby believing that there are many different deities. |
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During this time, Muhammad in Mecca preached to the people, imploring them to abandon polytheism and to worship one God. |
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By contrast, in his The Natural History of Religion, Hume presented arguments suggesting that polytheism had much to commend it over monotheism. |
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The Himyarites rejected polytheism and adhered to a consensual form of monotheism called Rahmanism. |
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The Roman polytheism merged with the Gallic paganism into the same syncretism. |
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Tradition regards Siberia the archetypal home of shamanism, and polytheism is popular. |
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A central, main division in polytheism is between soft polytheism and hard polytheism. |
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In Eurasia, the Kalash are one of very few instances of surviving polytheism. |
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Many other Hindus, however, view polytheism as far preferable to monotheism. |
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Wicca is a duotheistic faith created by Gerald Gardner that allows for polytheism. |
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This traditional religion heavily emphasized ancestor veneration, polytheism and animism. |
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While duotheism or bitheism is traditional in Wicca, broader Wiccan beliefs range from polytheism to pantheism or monism, even to Goddess monotheism. |
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The mythology of the Franks was probably a form of Germanic polytheism. |
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Since the 1970s such negative attitudes towards polytheism have changed. |
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English occultist Dion Fortune was a major populiser of soft polytheism. |
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Hinduism is a diverse system of thought with beliefs spanning monotheism, polytheism, panentheism, pantheism, pandeism, monism, and atheism among others. |
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But we should not forget that the world was yet too young to have arrived at the rigid and sharply-defined systems of polytheism or allotheism to which we are accustomed. |
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The gods of polytheism are in many cases the highest order of a continuum of supernatural beings or spirits, which may include ancestors, demons, wights and others. |
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