How To Use Polytheist In A Sentence
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A CIVILIZATION B SCIENCE/TECH C GOVERNMENT D RELIGION E SOCIOECONOMICS A Akkad B metallurgy walled cities irrigation C strong centraL authority controlled several city-states and kept peace (for a while) quelled dissent with violence D polytheistic tradition centered on city gods, fertility goddess and harvest deities hepatoscopy (examining sheep livers for omens)
When The Comet Flew Through Ancient Evenings
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Their abattoirs employ machine slaughter wherever possible and do not hesitate to employ pagans and polytheists, e.g. Chinese, Koreans, etc. to carry our slaughter.
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In their view, many people who claim to be monotheists are actually polytheists and idolaters.
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I suppose I am formally polytheistic, philosophically pantheistic, and intellectually agnostic (or maybe I would call myself a autotheist in the sense of believing that the gods are part of the self), yet I spend an hour every day studying subjects related to my religion (history, anthropology, etc).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Considering a Candidate’s Religion:
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Ghazali bitterly denounced Plato, Socrates and other Greek writers as mushrikuwn 'polytheist' and labelled those who employed their methods and ideas as corrupters of the Islamic faith.
Archive 2005-10-01
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Damian, terms like "Sabean" can get a bit confusing, since more than one group has had a name that was similar, and after the Qur'an gave them the thumbs up, many wanted to claim the safe haven provided by that umbrella e.g. most famously the "Sabeans of Harran", who were simply 'classic polytheists'.
Muslims, Baptists and Sabeans in Sunday School
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It is offensive to those who are atheists or agnostics or polytheists.
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In their view, many people who claim to be monotheists are actually polytheists and idolaters.
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Finally, does anyone else note that Catholicism is a polytheist religion?
Harlan Ellison on God
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That excludes polytheistic Americans like Hindus, nontheistic Buddhists and the 16 percent of us with no religious affiliation.
Roy Speckhardt: Choosing Faith Over Freedom
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Their polytheistic view influenced every aspect of their daily lives.
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Many of the stories of the Old Testament are borrowed from the polytheist religion of Mesopotamia.
Harlan Ellison on God
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It may be polytheistically or it may be monotheistically conceived of.
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
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I'd probably frame it more in terms of a clash of belief systems: monotheistic Christianity straitjacketing polytheistic animism into more polarised gender roles, and introducing the concept of sin.
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It is interesting that in animist, totemistic and polytheistic belief systems there are deities and powers associated with the branches of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
The Two Trees
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Many Hindus would disagree with you of course that their religion is polytheistic.
Matthew Yglesias » The Gaza Tunnels
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On the surface it may appear to be polytheistic with many gods and objects worshipped in various forms.
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So long as natural action was supposed to be in the immediate control of numerous gods and demigods, so long, in a word, as the explanation of Nature was what we term polytheistic, this association of science with other forms of learning was not only natural but inevitable.
Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography
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The pre-Christian religion of the Fijians was both animistic and polytheistic, and included a cult of chiefly ancestors.
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What I'm really seeking to discredit is a specific component of homodoxy exhibited most notably in monotheism but just as present in polytheist and atheist homodoxies.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FIVE
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Personally, I am a polytheist who values mythology.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Sad Victory for Thuggery in Texas
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The polytheist is oppressed and distracted by the variety of superstition: a thousand rites of Egyptian origin were interwoven with the essence of the Mosaic law; and the spirit of the gospel had evaporated in the pageantry of the church.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The religion of the mudang was polytheistic and somewhat animistic.
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There is considerable evidence that greater equality prevailed between women and men in the cult of some ancient polytheistic communities.
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The ancient Yemenis were polytheistic - they worshiped many different goddesses and gods.
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Jainism, which we describe as atheistic, and the colourless respectable religion of educated Chinese, become in their outward manifestations unblushingly polytheistic.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
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So we've a representative of a polytheistic society next to the peaceful and meditative Rothko and a load of outsider-art-influenced herberts.
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Though it was to only last his lifetime, as Tutankhaten who succeeded Akhenaton quickly changed his name to Tutankhamun or Tutankhamen and led the Egyptians back to polytheistic or multi God/Goddess beliefs.
Legends of the Sun
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Some modern-day pagans are polytheistic, meaning they believe in many gods; some are monotheistic (one god); and others are pantheists, or they believe that God is everything and everything is God, according to Web sites devoted to the subject.
Kentucky.com: Homepage
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These sculptural elements, which have polytheistic titles like "Purging Cyclops Being" and "Oval Tree Double Owls Oceania," are a little too friendly and puppetlike to stir the psyche.
NYT > Home Page
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Finally, does anyone else note that Catholicism is a polytheist religion?
Harlan Ellison on God
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Psalm 82: 8, the most 'polytheistic' of passages in the Hebrew Bible, the idea of a real kinship of nature between 'the Most High' and his 'sons', the gods, is already contradicted by the former's judgment that the latter 'will die like humans' (Ps. 82: 7).
Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
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Gradually, the people began to adopt polytheistic ideas, and worship spirits and many different gods.
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Our masses are ignorant of their religion and easily indulge in customs borrowed from polytheists.
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Williams also criticized the Governor for sitting cross-legged with a "dot on his forehead," and described the ceremony as "polytheistic.
Mike Ghouse: Senator Williams' Remarks Offended Hindus
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(In its message, the group referred to Sistani as a "polytheist," the extremist Sunni slur about Shiites.)
LISTEN TO THE AYATOLLAH
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The Kalash are polytheists, with a pantheon of deities and demi-gods that has been compared to that of ancient Greece, though it is much closer to Indo-Iranian (Vedic and pre-Zoroastrian) traditions.
The Kalash Tribe Of Pakistan (PHOTOS)
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(Granted, there are many other strands in the tapestry of religion, and granted, I've entirely overlooked the polytheistic and nontheistic religions, such as Hinduism and some forms of Buddhism, but in that short list above, we encompass more than half the world's population, and well over half its believers.)
Clay Farris Naff: Can Evolution Tell Us What God Wants?
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There is Christianity, which, by revealing the truth, has limited the license of human reason; there is that human reason which resists revelation as a bondage -- which insists upon being atheistical, or polytheistical, or pantheistical -- which looks upon the requirements of obedience, justice, truth, and purity, as limitations of human freedom.
Lothair
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You know all those deities -- the gods and goddesses that cause outsiders to think Hinduism is polytheistic?
Philip Goldberg: Colbert: Try Hinduism For Lent
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Truly polytheistic Europagan groups (such as the druids) are much smaller, despite the fact that they are often older.
Emasculation not required at SF Novelists
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Clearly Paul uses this as a connecting platform, without accepting a panentheistic/polytheistic/pluralist paradigm, as one can clearly glean by the immediate and larger context of Acts.
Sunday School: Genesis 1:1-2:3
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While Buddhism is deemed nontheistic, the Vedas are regarded as polytheistic, and the Bible is monotheistic, we have seen that the cosmogonies of Vajrayana Buddhism, Vedanta, and Neoplatonic Christianity have so much in common that they could almost be regarded as varying interpretations of a single theory.
C for Confusion!
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Some Indologists labeled the Hinduism they encountered polytheistic; others even coined new terms, like henotheism, to describe this baffling array of spiritual traditions.
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While not quite on this topic, for your entertainment and edification, allow me to quote a poem by the scholarly C.S. Lewis, who knew a thing or two about ancient polytheist writers:
MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
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How did Christianity become mixed with polytheistic beliefs?
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It was first thought that the Olmecs were monotheistic, but it is now known that they were polytheists.
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In other contexts "polytheist" tends to be what the word means.
Languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.'
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There was a polytheistic religion, with a supreme god to whom the king had a specially intimate relation.
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Some of our sources are Shiites and Sunnis from non-Wahhabi traditions -- people condemned as "polytheistic" or "deviant" or "bad" in these texts -- others are simply frustrated that these books do so little to prepare young students for the modern world.
This is a Saudi textbook. (After the intolerance was removed.)
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When confronted with monotheism for the first time, polytheists and animists all over the world frequently reacted if their own accounts are to be believed with: Sure!
In the Valley of the Shadow
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Islam does condemn in the strongest terms the beliefs and the practices of the polytheists and the idol worshippers, but it nowhere permits a Muslim to deal arrogantly or unjustly with them.
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In light of the transparently humanist program of the tempietti — a Christian chapel juxtaposed with "polytheistic" muses — the phrase "Regna Poly" stands out, especially considering the soon-to-be-published Hypnerotomachia poliphilo, a work dedicated to Guidobaldo da Montefeltro. back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Within a piece of relatively popular literature, an author could speak of supernatural causes both monotheistically and polytheistically.
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The emperor had begun to think polytheistic cult a veneration of evil spirits and therefore perhaps a danger to his realm.
