Word: polytheistic
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...Anderson: What was wrong? It's not true! If you want to be a Buddhist or a polytheist, it would be a wonderful answer. But if you are a Christian and you believe Christian doctrine and you are in the context of 2000 years of Christian understanding of theology, it is flat not correct ? To believe that every religion is equally valid and has its own way to god that works - that's simply not true...
Pull Up Your Socks. The strictness of the fast was an impressive profession of faith in Islam, the world's great third-force religion, a monotheist faith akin to Christianity and Judaism,* dedicated to stamping out polytheist religions, e.g., Buddhism and Hinduism, as pagan and "immoral...
...difference between monotheism and polytheism is not just a matter of arithmetic. Polytheism assumes several divine wills, divergent, possibly conflicting. The polytheist is not surprised the world seems capricious, illogical, anarchic. The man who says there is one God also says that there is one divine will and one truth. Nature, somehow, must make sense. Men are obliged to obey...
Before his death, he made Mecca, and especially the Kaaba, a center of veneration that was to draw a thousand times more pilgrims than had ever worshiped at Mecca's polytheist shrines...
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