Word: polytheistic
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...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...