Polytheistic used in a sentence

Polytheistic in a sentence as an adjective

I'm sure that'll work well in a polytheistic world. Oh wait, we've already tried that.

She mentioned somewhere that she sees India and Japan as good case studies in how modernist polytheistic societies works. Not exact models of what a modernist Rome would look like, though.

It happenrd both on nomadic and non nomadic nation's, as well as polytheistic religions of Asia. No correlation here.

Most of these religions are polytheistic. By contrast, adopting a monotheistic religion limits you to just one chip on the cosmic roulette table.

If you want to keep theism, a polytheistic cosmology is also possible. Cultures who have a dualistic view of God or a polytheistic cosmos don't have monotheism's same sort of problem of evil.

Something like: polytheistic anthropomorphic gods don’t encourage humans to think abstractly. An abstract God concept that is infinite, endless, etc.

Many Christian societies are also polytheistic. The trinity is nothing if not an expression of polytheism.

I really get tired of the myth that the polytheistic cultures of antiquity were much more religiously tolerant than the later monotheistic cultures. This is a myth caused by an appeal to common sense that is not supported by the evidence.

Yes. Were ancient Greeks polytheistic believing the gods were tantamount to humans? Yes. Were X race of people in a position of servitude by Y oppressors?

Abrahamic religions referring to god as someone in the skies could have been a remnant from previous polytheistic religions where the sky god was the most dominant god.

For starters, the catholic church is shock-full of polytheistic symbols, and there is little evidence that it was different during the Roman empire. They follow eucharistic rituals that were common to other religions, such as the cult of Dionysius.

I cannot find any animistic religions, no shamanism, virtually no polytheistic religions outside of hinduism. But it isn't really because the map isn't "complete enough", I'd say the whole taxonomy is a bit weird.

Unix is polytheistic and depends extensively on unseen deities, called daemons, so atheism is not strictly possible. The init[1] daemon is the first daemon which is begat directly by the kernel and it creates daemons for other purposes and when they die, it creates them again.

Yahweh was the national god of the Israelites, who were part of the Canaanite polytheistic system. In the context of Yahweh being a warrior deity in a polytheistic system, the phrase "there are no other gods like our god," and also the crusades against neighboring settlements seem to take on more meaning.

"how would an industrialised, polytheistic society cope with monotheistic terrorism?" Add to this a side plot about creating sentient machines and you basically summed up the storyline of Caprica, Battlestar Galactica's prequel.

So when someone prays to a particular saint seeking something they are engaging a polytheistic act just as one who prays to an idol is engaging in polytheism. I am not sure about Muslims worshipping Muhammad. Maybe in some polytheistic branches of Islam such as sufism and so forth which were themselves influenced by hindu/christian/etc ideas.

Hallucinations and dreams are powerful psychological cues, but I don't think they represent the common perception for the origin of either polytheistic or monotheistic gods. For most cultures, I think it's pretty obvious that "The Gods" simply represent a conversational placeholder for forces of nature with origins that are not well understood.

In this specific case, you'll find something simple and enlightening: the Genesis creation account is a monotheistic response to the polytheistic Egyptian creation account [2]. It uses essentially the same style of storytelling and language of creation as the older Egyptian accounts, referring to many of the same types of events, but in ways that are insulting to the Egyptian pantheon.

In addition to that, a sizable portion of ancient Greek thinkers would not really be considered "polytheistic" in the traditional sense and their focus on God being infinite, endless etc. is largely the source of such ideas in early Christianity and Islam.

Right, however the Pauline creed places Jesus as divine alongside God. This is polytheistic as it has assigned divinity to something/someone other than God alone. And predates the period you describe. Of course, Christianity has become more and more polytheistic over time and now resembles, particularly in the third world where saint worship and veneration of bones is common practice, a belief system that is only marginally more monotheistic than Hinduism.