monotheism

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Much more useful to me, is a recent comment by Gore Vidal who put forth the question whether monotheism was actually good for human civilization?

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  • It had the chance to be the best monotheism, and in many ways it was. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • To some extent this aim engendered a modification in the religious monotheism, and led to the interposition of intermediate conceptions between the Inconceivable and man. —  Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria
  • The theology of Philo is characterized throughout by a tolerant and philosophical grasp of the difficulty of pure monotheism, and of the necessity of a long intellectual searching before the goal can be attained. —  Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria
  • Yet he was the first Hellenistic Jew who perceived the fundamental harmony between the philosopher's idealism and Jewish monotheism, and he was the first important commentator of Plato who developed the religious teaching of his master into a powerful spiritual force. —  Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria
  • Soekarno defended a secular state based on Pancasila, five principles of the state philosophy -- monotheism, humanitarianism, national unity, representative democracy by consensus, and social justice -- codified in the 1945 constitution, while some Muslim groups preferred either an Islamic state or a constitution that included a preambular provision requiring adherents of Islam to be subject to Islamic law.
 

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  1. = French monothéisme = Spanish monoteísmo = Portuguese monotheismo = Italian monoteismo, from Greek μόνος, single. + θεός, God: see theism.
 

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/ˈmɑnəθiɪzm/
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