polytheist
Noun
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One who believes in, or maintains the doctrine of, a plurality of gods.
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In other words, Nyaya says that the polytheist would have to give elaborate proofs for the existence and origin of his several celestial spirits, none of which would be logical, and that it is more logical to assume one eternal, omniscient god.
Others attribute it to the influence of monism or Advaita, which discounts polytheist or monotheist categorization.
Those who did not (polytheist, monotheist, or atheist ) were outsiders to the Church and thus pagan.sfn Similarly, classical pagans would have found it peculiar to distinguish groups by the number of deities followers venerate.