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Robert Garland · 2024
Monotheism vs. polytheism — Akhenaten, Israelite Yahwism, Constantine, Julian the Apostate. Religion-history cluster.
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What this book knows
Monotheism and polytheism are not opposites but rival answers to the same human hunger for contact with the divine.
faith-and-doubt
Homo sapiens dates back to the moment when our ancestors first began to ponder the nature of existence and decided that the visible world might not be all that exists.
GAGH-RC-004Perhaps monotheism and polytheism evolved in tandem... Hinduism looks like a polytheistic system to outsiders, but to Hindus it has strong monotheistic tendencies.
GAGH-RC-006obedience-and-authority
The most common adjective he uses of himself is 'jealous' because he doesn't tolerate any other gods. Jealousy is hardly a virtue.
GAGH-RC-061Protestant-Catholic hatred combined with rancorous politics to fuel decades of tit-for-tat violence.
GAGH-RC-046mortality
How can an immortal god comprehend mortality? The Greeks were unflinching in their belief that the Olympian deities ceased to have any interest in them at the moment of their passing.
GAGH-RC-054Both women and men, slaves as well as free, and people of any ethnic background could undergo initiation into these mysteries—extremely unusual in the ancient world.
GAGH-RC-057Illuminates
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