Why is Monotheism more popular in the World today then Polytheism?

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Because the monotheistic states conquered the polytheistic ones and told the polytheistic peoples that they won because God was on their side and if you want to join the winning team to follow their God.
 

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Because the monotheistic states conquered the polytheistic ones and told the polytheistic peoples that they won because God was on their side and if you want to join the winning team to follow their God.

nice and simple but faith is something you keep to yourself just because someone told you not to believe a certain way does not mean you just stop.

If that was the case Haitians would not have voodoo.
 

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Abrahamic faiths crushed the buildings post-Roman empire bruddah...no looking back since then
 

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Abrahamic faiths crushed the buildings post-Roman empire bruddah...no looking back since then

You think people saw there prosperity and influence and realized there beliefs were not working? Is it just easier to fit your previous beliefs into a monotheist one? Remember at one point around the world Polytheism was the dominant religion and even India has manged to keep it.
 

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dudes got tired of Athena having a bad day and throwing a comet at Thor and sh1t
 

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You think people saw there prosperity and influence and realized there beliefs were not working? Is it just easier to fit your previous beliefs into a monotheist one? Remember at one point around the world Polytheism was the dominant religion and even India has manged to keep it.

Partially, but again, don't count out political expedience and violent imposition. There was a time, when the Roman Empire was at its height, when polytheism was dominant in the world. The Romans actually considered the Jews primitive because they were monotheistic, and polytheism was associated with civilization. It's all historical contingency.
 

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Partially, but again, don't count out political expedience and violent imposition. There was a time, when the Roman Empire was at its height, when polytheism was dominant in the world. The Romans actually considered the Jews primitive because they were monotheistic, and polytheism was associated with civilization. It's all historical contingency.

I am just trying to figure out where the shift came from? I really think violence played a silent factor in the conversions for many. It made them suppress there beliefs which they could not pass on to there children.
 

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you ever fukked with Catholicism? so many damn saints that people pray to. Jews and Muslims kept it pretty simple though.

nah, I've never been a religious person. but that sounds like it was left over from polytheism
 

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All religions are largely plagiarisms of earlier religions. They just change the main characters.
 

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nah, I've never been a religious person. but that sounds like it was left over from polytheism

That's what I've always thought. Take Christianity, sprinkle a little paganism on it and voila; Catholicism.


If you look at a list of Catholic patron saints, they have more deities that can be prayed to than the Romans did by far.

Plus with all their shrines and rituals, they're damn near voodoo status.
 

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Because it's easier to worship one God. Same reason people get tv, internet and phone under one package instead of three different bills each month.
 
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