monotheism

• “For all that the tradition of argument within monotheism is a long and noble one, for all that the emphasis on wisdom, justice and mercy is there, I think this lynchpin of monotheism -- this idea of a supreme moral authority, a God who makes the law, who owns the law, whose law is defined in terms of sin, dictated to us through scripture, and derived from faith -- this is the keystone of that rival tradition, I think.”

  Archive 2006-02-01

• “Religious zealots associated with monotheism is the scourge that should be eliminated. arc, Lugano CH”

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• “Your monotheism is solely ethnocentrism and your insistance on closing your mind to the infinate realm of possibilities that truely exist.”

  Friendly religious questions for Christians and other monotheists

• “Not just not-monotheism, because that assumes that monotheism is the default, the standard, and I believe that polytheism is the logical choice of standard if one should exist at all.”

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• “But, I argued, their solution needs modification, because their identification of religion with monotheism is naïve.”

  Balkinization

• “I think, he says, I need new terms here entirely because, yes, not all monotheism is universalist and predicated on the faith/doubt, win/lose scenario of Pascalus's Christianity (as your example of Judaism illustrates), not all polytheism is of that Graeco-Roman nature (as your example of Hinduism points out), and the atheism I'm talking about really includes antitheist and agnostic outlooks in its focus on doubt.”

  Archive 2007-04-01

• “What I'm really seeking to discredit is a specific component of homodoxy exhibited most notably in monotheism but just as present in polytheist and atheist homodoxies.”

  THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FIVE

• “And the violence done to Hinduism and Buddhism, for instance, by including them either under your "a toast to Ares!" model of polytheism or the South Park ( "the winners are ... the Mormons!") model of monotheism, is incalculable.”

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• “It's no surprise that we find this idea in monotheism then.”

  Archive 2006-02-01

• “That authoritarian tendency within monotheism does its best to restrict a quite natural impulse to question the rules, justifying this on the basis that any such challenge is a lack of faith, a challenge to scripture, a sin in and of itself, because it challenges the supremacy of God's moral authority -- i.e. their constraint morality.”

  The Heirs of Job

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