Monotheism Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

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
Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous… — Isaac Bonewits
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the… — Michel Onfray
A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe… — Christopher Hitchens
Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything. — Robert A. Heinlein
Monotheism begins with a god who hates trees. — John Lamb Lash
Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a… — Israel Shenker
By God, we shall not stop, God willing, except at the doorsteps of the White House, and to raise the banner of monotheism on their… — Osama bin Laden
Monotheism is but imperialism in religion. — James Henry Breasted
The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human… — Gore Vidal
Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims… — George Steiner
Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only… — Carroll Quigley
It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But… — Robert Winston
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only… — Thomas Szasz
Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race. — Gore Vidal
Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people,… — Gore Vidal
All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship. — Julius Wellhausen
The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism. — Walter Kaufmann

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