Life Quote by Page duBois

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

— Herman Bavinck

“Monotheists have tended to be far more fanatical and missionary than polytheists.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The idea of polytheism is grounded in the view that reality (divine or otherwise) is multiple and diverse... Polytheism has allowed a multitude of…

— Margot Adler

“This is the world of polytheism: it knows no overall truth and order, only fragments and limited connections in the shambles of time and…

— Rousas John Rushdoony

“Animists thought that humans were just one of many creatures inhabiting the world. Polytheists, on the other hand, increasingly saw the world as a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It is a distinction, instead, between two entirely different kinds of reality, belonging to two entirely disparate conceptual orders. In fact, the very division…

— David Bentley Hart

The Neo-Pagan religious framework is based on a polytheistic outlook- a view that allows differing perspectives and ideas to coexist

— Margot Adler

“Monotheists have tended to be far more fanatical and missionary than polytheists. A religion that recognises the legitimacy of other faiths implies either that…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.

— Walter Kaufmann

“For my purposes, the differences among animistic, pantheistic, and monotheistic religions can be ascribed to differences in the content of beliefs in the supernatural,…

— Scott Atran

The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being…

— Thomas Jefferson

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe