Form Quote by Auguste Comte

Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with…

— Israel Shenker

I think the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the gods.

— Emo Philips

Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a…

— Isaac Bonewits

“so many theological terms, words like ‘monotheism’ are late constructs, convenient shorthands for sentences with verbs in them, and that sentences with verbs in…

— N.T. Wright

One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by…

— Richard Rohr

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism

— Ibn Warraq

“We have no historical testimony to the development of polytheism into pure monotheism;”

— Herman Bavinck

“(It is, by the way, a truism of classical monotheism that “God” is not a kind of being: whereas there is a genus “human,”…

— James E. Dolezal

“Polytheism may be more consonant with contemporary life, its mixed populations, and its recognition of psychic complexity and interdependence, than a rigorous Protestant monotheism.”

— Page duBois

“Abraham was the founder of monotheism because he intuited a great Cosmic Mind behind everything, planning everything. Monotheism did not mean that there were…

— Mark Booth

Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

— James Henry Breasted

All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.

— Julius Wellhausen