11 example sentences using polytheism.
Polytheism used in a sentence
Polytheism in a sentence as a noun
It is not polytheism in practise or reality.
The line between polytheism and monotheism isn't all that clear.
They're one God in three persons, monotheistic polytheism!
Using monotheism and polytheism as a metaphor here was a poor choice.
Does ID make monotheism or polytheism more likely for example?
Besides, the English lexicon is full of vestigial words and phrases relating to Greek polytheism, they're just as detached as this metaphor is.
Although christians like to publicize their supposed monotheism, their religion is not very different from old polytheism.
You can't describe what they believed, because unlike them you grew up in a culture that eradicated polytheism centuries ago and has only a very abstract idea of what that even means.
It's like Hellenistic polytheism in which the natural world could be understood as being comprised of human-like entities each of which can be understood the way you would psychologize a single person.
Or why even include Catholics, as there's a significant minority of Protestants who consider them to be a false church engaging in polytheism - asking saints for intercession with God on their behalf looks a lot like praying to them from the outside.
And a dog is an omen, and a cat is a mystery, and a pig is a mascot and a beetle is a scarab, calling up all the menagerie of polytheism from Egypt and old India; Dog Anubis and great green-eyed Pasht and all the holy howling Bulls of Bashan; reeling back to the bestial gods of the beginning, escaping into elephants and snakes and crocodiles; and all because you are frightened of four words: βHe was made Man.ββ
Polytheism definitions
belief in multiple Gods