monotheistic

In a monotheistic view, scientific exploration and discovery only explain how the Designer created things.

Also in most monotheistic religions it is the worse possible offense to worship other gods.

There is at least a superficial (and not at all radical) case to be made that Christianity is monotheistic in name only.

See, for example: any of the main monotheistic religions.

Not as unpalatable as some of the more direct monotheistic religions, but depending on your teacher stoicism was still on a scale of pantheism to direct theism.

They're one God in three persons, monotheistic polytheism!

Hence, while being the most recent of the monotheistic religions, Muslims argue that its a return to the 'original' religion of Abraham, Moses, Jesus etc.

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.

Christian philosophy is a monotheistic philosophy.

Anyway, if you wanted to know why premarital sex is considered immoral in most major religions (the big 3 monotheistic ones, anyway), you're watching it, live.

I often wonder what state science might be in Greek & Roman pantheism had persisted rather than being displaced by the monotheistic religions from the Middle East.

You could argue that the Far East are simply religiously backwards, using polytheism instead of monotheism, so your argument actually makes no sense, they simply haven't caught the monotheistic religious bug (yet).

If you already have a cynical viewpoint on religion, then this thought experiment is very similar to the "deal" monotheistic religions have been offering through the ages.

The chapter is "The Cultural Desert." My brief, gross over simplification is that the local ecology is the driving factor: the warrior cultures (more thar-ish and more monotheistic) develop in deserts, while polytheistic, somewhat more egalitarian cultures develop in rain forests.

And to someone who may ask me "why would you want the freedom to do something bad?" I'll answer that three of the biggest monotheistic religions are based on a guy a girl who were allowed to do bad things (Adam and Eve).

(Sometimes what "makes us look dumb" is reading ancient books without any historical insight, and expecting to understand them perfectly.) 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].

Monotheistic religions, atleast the unfabricated, do not profess the idea that this material world is wholly bad.

Monotheistic religions and Hellenistic mysteries offered a more fulfilling concept of Afterlife.