monotheism

From what I know, many early religions involved multiple deities. But then it seems that in what we now call the West and the Middle East, a very definite change toward monotheism occurred. What brought that on? Was there some functional reason? Did someone decide it worked better? What was the...

Did YHWH have a wife called Asherah (Astarte)? If she really looked like the picture below.... I can understand now why YHWH is such a cantankerous monster. A very interesting 4 part video by the BBC..... it is VERY interesting Part I Part II Part III Part IV There is also book about the...

Is it possible for people to agree there is one God? Can people give up partisanship enough to agree that God is far away somewhere, in a place we can not go, and that God does no come here and that we can not know His name? Would the world be a better place if we could?

I just finished reading God Against the Gods: The History of the War between Monotheism and Polytheism by Jonathan Kirsch. Kirsch theorizes that if the Roman emperor Constantine had not favored Christianity, allowed the church to own property, and strongly urged the Christian Church to resolve...

When I read a description of Christianity, it is often described as being Monotheistic. Is this really the case? Unless I misunderstand, it seems that God is not the only "deity" that exists within the Christian belief system. There is also Satan, as well as various angles and demons. A number...

I've just read 'Imagine No Superstition' by Stephen Uhl In it he makes a comment (just in passing) about the progress of mankind from polytheism to monotheism and finally to a "pragmatic and reasonable atheism". Is monotheism progress (or an advancement) compared to polytheism?

I am truly agnostic, but I nonetheless consider Polytheism more valid than monotheism due to the simple fact that the universe rarely makes just one of anything. I'll leave it as simple as that to begin with. Any thoughts?

Ahmadinejad has said it a couple of times already, in his "letter" to Bush, and also a couple of months ago when Iran launched a satellite (it was supposed to "spread monotheism", whatever that means) http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/04/iran-us-foreign-policy-weapons and now again at...

I watched this program last night (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bible/cohen.html) and found it very interesting. It appears some of the latest archaelogical theories surrounding the Biblical stories indicate that the ancient Israelites were a oppressed class of Canaanites and over a long...

First of all, let me point out I'm not saying people who claim to be Christian or Jewish or any other theist belief don't commit crimes. And I'm not saying that there aren't some very ethical atheists out there. But in my opinion, if everyone in the world (rich, poor, and middle class) was...

What are the arguments for and against the argument that "it's all the same God"? That is, Yahweh, Allah and every capitalized deity out there are all one thing that humans interpret differently, and that all theists, whether they deny it or not, worship the same being. I've read that Zoroaster...

Monotheism is a hard stance to maintain. The Hindus, of course, make no effort to be monotheistic, and cheerfully bow down to what sounds like thousands of supernatural beings, some of them borrowed and most of them of great antiquity, positively a museum of gods. The Jews do their damnedst...

Monotheism is a hard stance to maintain. The Hindus, of course, make no effort to be monotheistic, and cheerfully bow down to what sounds like thousands of supernatural beings, some of them borrowed and most of them of great antiquity, positively a museum of gods. The Jews do their damnedst...