““Abraham was the founder of monotheism because he intuited a great Cosmic Mind behind everything, planning everything. Monotheism did not mean that there were no other gods or spiritual beings but that there was a unified plan in the world and—crucially—that humankind would have to develop the faculty of intelligence in order to discover that plan. Because of monotheism humankind would be enabled to make sense of the whole of life and the cosmos, and in order to be able to do that, would develop the faculty for sustained abstract intellectual thought.””
![“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 step backwards--a step that has been responsible for more human misery than any other idea in known history.” quote by Isaac Bonewits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0eb/isaac-bonewits-49346_backwards_far-from-being-the-crown-of-human-though_419570.jpg)
