Monotheism Quote by Walter Kaufmann Download Open image “The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.” — Walter Kaufmann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Monotheism Religion
“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 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 very division… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“We have no historical testimony to the development of polytheism into pure monotheism;” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Monotheists have tended to be far more fanatical and missionary than polytheists.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to. — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Why is monotheistic faith better than polytheistic? I mean, either you believe - if you believe in, like, a magic person who can do… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems,… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all dogmas, all… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that.… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“Renouncing false beliefs will not usher in the millennium. Few things about the strategy of contemporary apologists are more repellent than their frequent recourse… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting comfort. Mundus… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television,… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and… — Baron D'Holbach Copy Share Image
If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“All the three monotheist religions (Jewish, Christianity and Islam)claims that their God (Yahweh, God and Allah) created humans in a similar way: this indicates… — Ajay Kansal 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 - good… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I think [rock'n'roll] essence is what made it good and has a lot in common with what originally made monotheism good - it's against… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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.… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“To Judaism Christians ascribe the glory of having been the first religion to teach a pure monotheism. But monotheism existed long before the Jews… — John E. Remsburg Copy Share Image