Is Monotheism another kind of Atheism?

Question

They don't believe in the Gods of polytheism and are only one god short of atheism. Their god is pretty abstract like a sort of divine principle rather than a full-blown personal deity.

Answer 1

Monotheism is another kind of Atheism.

And I will tell you why.

If someone believes only in one God (monotheism) that means that believes that this Huge Creator ctreated only mortal material beings. Isn't this discredit of The God from the monotheists?



I - that believe in Zeus - believe that our Grand Lord, created lesser beings like mortal material humans but - because He is Great - created also higher immortal pure minds beings (gods).



So yes... I believe in polytheism.



Zeus is our Grand Lord and there are many higher gods and lesser demons. Plenty of them. We must worship them!



Χαίρε Δία!

Answer 2

There is nothing "abstract" about the God of the Bible. He has made himself very evident, it's just that those without faith fail to see him. He gave us the Bible to help reveal himself to us. He gives us prayer so that we can communicate with him. The prophesies in the Bible give us hope for the future that you can get nowhere else. He gives us fellow Christians to associate with for encouragement as we await the promises of a wonderful paradise earth and much much more. We have a world wide brotherhood who truly love each other. He has given us a real purpose in life with satisfying work of preaching the good news to help others find him and get everlasting life on that paradise earth (read Psalm 37:29).

If you are not getting all this from your religion you have not found the true religion. Talk to Jehovah's Witnesses and you will learn much more about these things.

Answer 3

Polytheism is an invention of humans. Monotheism is acknowledgment of the true divine. Even polytheistic Ancient Greece had a shrine to the Unknown God.

Answer 4

You need a course in Logic followed by one in Rhetoric followed by a couple weeks with Plato.

Your definitions are equivocal. You commit the 'argument of the beard' twice. And you ignore the difference between connotation and denotation.



And that thing about the personal God is absurd. Look up 'person'. It is a Christian philosophical term !!!

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm

Answer 5

monotheism is 1 God too many to be Atheism

Atheism means disbelief in deities full stop, if you believe in 1 God, that at least makes you a theist

Answer 6

"Perhaps Monotheism belongs next to Nontheism and Atheism as a denial of divine reality?"



And then again, perhaps not.

Answer 7

It's a well known religious principle that 1=0. If you are at the correct level of initation, you will know this statement to be true, or false.

Answer 8

If you believe in "a" god (monotheism), then how can you believe in "no" gods (atheism)? Sorry, but the question doesn't even make sense.

Answer 9

Christianity and Jewish and Islam and all those are Monotheism, durka durka. Atheism is the opposite of anything else ending in theism, at least as far as the belief in dieties goes. The personification of God is a problem, but it doesn't distinguish monotheism from I dunno Christianity.

Answer 10

Easy answer is NO



Now gimme my 10 pts.

Answer 11

No. Monotheists have hope.