Quotes About Polytheism

#1. It is a distinction, instead, between two entirely different kinds of reality, belonging to two entirely disparate conceptual orders. In fact, the very division between monotheism and polytheism is in many cases a confusion of categories.

David Bentley Hart

#2. 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

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

Walter Kaufmann

#4. Two thousand years of monotheistic brainwashing have caused most Westerners to see polytheism as ignorant and childish idolatry. This is an unjust stereotype.

Yuval Noah Harari

#5. Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

Immanuel Kant

#6. You see why the psalm threw me for a loop. The first verse has God presiding over an assembly of gods. Doesn't that sound like a pantheon - something we associate with polytheism and mythology?

Michael S. Heiser

#7. The insight of polytheism is conducive to far-reaching religious tolerance.

Yuval Noah Harari

#8. Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and unbelief).

Fatima Bint Muhammad

#9. The idea of polytheism is grounded in the view that reality (divine or otherwise) is multiple and diverse ... Polytheism has allowed a multitude of distinct groups to exist more or less in harmony, despite great divergence in beliefs and practices ...

Margot Adler

#10. The fundamental insight of polytheism, which distinguishes it from monotheism, is that the supreme power governing the world is devoid of interests and biases, and therefore it is unconcerned with the mundane desires, cares and worries of humans.

Yuval Noah Harari

#11. Polytheism is inherently open-minded, and rarely persecutes 'heretics' and 'infidels'.

Yuval Noah Harari

#12. For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.

Walter Kaufmann

#13. The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. Religion in the form of polytheism entered the world as the vindication of power. Not only was there no separation of church and state; religion was the transcendental justification of the state.

Jonathan Sacks

#15. The theory of three person in one God (that is, a personal Trinity or Tri-unity) suggests polytheism, rather than the one ever-present I AM ... Jesus Christ is not God, as Jesus himself declared, but is the Son of God.

Mary Baker Eddy

#16. I discovered I was a monotheist ... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth.

G. Willow Wilson

#17. Polytheism is too delicate a way of thinking for modern minds.

John N. Gray

#18. Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth.

Pope Francis

#19. Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

George Bernard Shaw

#20. [T]houghts will arise. Don't be bothered by them. Don't think they're bad or that you shouldn't be having them. ... If you leave them alone, they'll depart of their own accord. This is how to 'cease all movements of the conscious mind.' You cannot do it by the direct application of your will.

Steve Hagen

#21. Never forget that when you point the finger at someone, three of your own fingers are pointing back at you...

Peter Van Der Linden

#22. Every interaction in the marketplace produces some kind of evaluation or appraisal opportunity that can be conveyed to others by the person on the receiving end of the interaction.

Jim Blasingame

#23. When God is making these judgements, his purpose is not to keep as many people out of hell as possible. His goal is to get as many people into heaven as possible.

J.P. Moreland

#24. I have yet to understand the ritual of sacrifice in monotheism; to a supposed Creator who has supposedly given us what we will be eventually sacrificing.
If I take a small mirror and reflect sunlight back to the sun, am I sacrificing to the sun?

Haroutioun Bochnakian

#25. Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have, for there is much to prevent one's knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the shortness of man's life.

Protagoras

#26. Either i've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.

Tamora Pierce

#27. Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await the time of promise, his life-story disintegrates into a myriad of unconnected instants.

Pope Francis

#28. But darling, I wish you well On your way to the wishing well

Patty Griffin

#29. The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

Dizzy Gillespie

#30. As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.

Pierre Corneille

#31. I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.

Malala Yousafzai