monotheism

pantheism

Baruch Spinoza

belief in god

Christianity

religion

is a lot more than just economy of hypothesis, for God is, among other things, unity.

a lot more than just economy of hypothesis.

is bargained down from the plurality of Gods and is getting ever nearer to the true, round figure.

'From a plurality of prime movers, the monotheists have bargained it down to a single one. They are getting ever nearer to the true, round figure.'

is a plagiarism of a plagiarism of a hearsay of a hearsay, of an illusion of an illusion, extending all the way back to a fabrication of a few nonevents.

' . . . Monotheistic religion is a plagiarism of a plagiarism of a hearsay of a hearsay, of an illusion of an illusion, extending all the way back to a fabrication of a few nonevents.'

is anti-scientific, polytheism is pre-scientific.

Polytheism is pre-scientific: monotheism is anti-scientific.

is to be denounced because the belief in one God led to one norm for men to conform to, thus retarding the development of individuality. Polytheism, by contrast, allowed for a multiplicity of norms.

Nietzsche [in The Gay Science § 143] denounced monotheism for preaching the existence of one Normalgott as a single norm which suggests somehow that there is also a Normalmensch: a norm to which all men must conform and a bar to the development of individuality. It was the advantage of polytheism, Nietzsche contends, that it allowed for a “multiplicity of norms.”

monotheism, n.Definitions

monotheism