By God, we shall not stop, God willing, except at the doorsteps of the White House, and to raise the banner of… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“We have no historical testimony to the development of polytheism into pure monotheism;” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism. — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Monotheism and election, taken together, demand eschatology. Creational/covenantal monotheism, taken together with the tension between election and exile, demands resurrection and a… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“It is a distinction, instead, between two entirely different kinds of reality, belonging to two entirely disparate conceptual orders. In fact, the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Polytheism may be more consonant with contemporary life, its mixed populations, and its recognition of psychic complexity and interdependence, than a rigorous… — Page duBois Copy Share Image
Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced… — Carlton J. H. Hayes Copy Share Image
Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in… — Isaac Bonewits Copy Share Image
Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“The first monotheist religion known to us appeared in Egypt, c.1350 BC, when Pharaoh Akhenaten declared that one of the minor deities… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Abraham was the founder of monotheism because he intuited a great Cosmic Mind behind everything, planning everything. Monotheism did not mean that… — Mark Booth Copy Share Image
Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Know, child, that the One God—He is so vast that He cannot be moved, else the Universe falls. Nor can He answer,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
“Monotheism generally allows for no greys. Ideas are either true or false. Hence, although science develops out of the alchemy of the… — Jordan D. Paper Copy Share Image
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I think [rock'n'roll] essence is what made it good and has a lot in common with what originally made monotheism good -… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
In the native world, major gods come in trios, duos, and groups. It is the habit of non-natives to discover the supreme… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others -… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you get into really learning about the roots of monotheism, it was utterly a radical cultural moment. The Bible was so… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
“82. And those who believe (in the Oneness of Allaah -- Islaamic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, they are dwellers of… — Dr Muhammad Muhsin Khan Copy Share Image
'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“they not that Allaah, Who created the heavens and the earth, is Able to create the like of them. And He has… — Muhammad Muhsin Khan Copy Share Image
The further humans move from hunters to horticulturists to agriculturists to urbanisation to industrialists, the further the sacred recedes, first to heaven,… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“The Quran did not put forward any philosophical arguments for monotheism; its approach was practical, and, as such, it appealed to the… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism,… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
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