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
'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
“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
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
“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
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship. — Julius Wellhausen 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
Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism. — Immanuel Kant 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
“Unchecked, science and monotheism both mean to vanquish nature.” — Christopher Potter Copy Share Image
There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Indian monotheism in its living forms, from the Vedic age till now, has believed 'rather in the unity of the gods in… — Satischandra Chatterjee 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
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
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
Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm… — Gloria Steinem 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
“Monotheism strenuously denies the need to return to a cultural style that periodically places the ego and its values in perspective through… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that… — Thomas Szasz 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
“If God is a single person, then before God created, he was alone in eternity. God had no one to love but… — Kenneth Richard Samples 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
“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
“Thabit ibn Qurra (AD 836-901, and also born in Harran), would have had little patience with loaded terms like "star idolatry" which… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“The mindset of antiquity lacked economic science and sociological theory. The ancients did rather well with political narrative, although, except for Thucydides,… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
