polytheism
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The doctrine of, or belief in, a plurality of gods.
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The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.
Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and unbelief).
Wahabbis think that holy sites are a manifestation of polytheism. They deem anyone who opposes them to be polytheist. They believe Shias, Sunnis, and the Islamic world are polytheist.
Despite the polytheism of the East Mediterranean nations, monotheistic trends were always present even in such crass polytheisms such as we find in Homer and in Egyptian literature.
It is obtuse to confuse Hinduism's images with idolatry, and their multiplicity with polytheism. They are 'runways' from which the sense-laden human spirit can rise for its "flight ofthe alone to the Alone.
Atheism, Trinitarian views of God, and polytheism are all ruled out.