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Recent Examples of monotheism
Because many people worshipped some variation of a sun god, Aurelian seemed to think Sol Invictus would be the god most likely to pull off monotheism.
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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
These include roads, cars, fences, ranchers, cities, computers, cell phones, the rich but also the ignorant poor (most of all, white-trash Trump voters), Nazis, NPR’s Kai Ryssdal, technocrats, Apple, the internet, and monotheism.
—Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
Ethical monotheism differs from ethical humanism.
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 14 June 2021
The Canaanites were an ancient pagan people whom the Bible says inhabited Jerusalem and other parts of the Middle East before the advent of monotheism.
—Zeena Saifi, CNN, 27 Apr. 2022
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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
These include roads, cars, fences, ranchers, cities, computers, cell phones, the rich but also the ignorant poor (most of all, white-trash Trump voters), Nazis, NPR’s Kai Ryssdal, technocrats, Apple, the internet, and monotheism.
—Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
Ethical monotheism differs from ethical humanism.
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 14 June 2021
The Canaanites were an ancient pagan people whom the Bible says inhabited Jerusalem and other parts of the Middle East before the advent of monotheism.
—Zeena Saifi, CNN, 27 Apr. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monotheism
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In addition to communicating language, some runes also had a mythological connection, being linked with deities in Germanic paganism.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
3 Feb. 2025
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All across Central Europe, a fascination with runes and folk magic aligns with both right-wing xenophobia and left-wing paganism.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2025
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Both discoveries date to the period when the Roman Empire was transitioning from polytheism to Christianity.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Dec. 2024
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Religious history Fascinating finds related to religious history tell a story of diverse belief systems from the polytheism of the ancient Greeks and Romans to Buddhism and Christianity.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Dec. 2024
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After breakfast, there are classes, usually in philosophy or theology, and more prayer.—
Lawrence Wright,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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Is there a tension between wanting to engage with Jewish religious texts, and then acknowledging that theology can prevent clear thinking?—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
13 Feb. 2025
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In 1809, Friedrich’s budding pantheism landed him in hot water.—
Zachary Fine,
The New Yorker,
28 June 2024
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Spinoza was infamous for his sometimes inscrutable variety of pantheism, in which God no longer sits outside Nature, paring his fingernails (James Joyce’s joke), but effectively is Nature, inextricable from it.—
James Wood,
The New Yorker,
4 Sep. 2023
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While most of the Empire was being immersed in a religion which was a synthesis of Roman institutions, Greek philosophy and Hebrew theism, a subset of the population of philosophical inclination was being drawn into a religious system descended from Hellenistic paganism.—
Razib Khan,
Discover Magazine,
10 Aug. 2012
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Another frequent topic of disbelief among Edge responders was theism and its anti-science offshoots---in particular the belief in intelligent design, and the belief that the Earth is only a few thousand years old.—
Jennifer Welsh,
Discover Magazine,
23 Nov. 2010
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On March 27, Coney Barrett, a Trump nominee, expressed major concerns about reviving the doctrine, which hasn't been used since the 1930s and could severely weaken the power of government agencies.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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The central question before the court was whether Congress and the FCC violated that doctrine through the scheme.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
26 Mar. 2025
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This vague gesture in the direction of deism has no antecedent in the book, no moral or theological trajectory to make Bambi’s insight meaningful or satisfying.—
Kathryn Schulz,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2022
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Those intuitions usually commended a staid deism and scorn for those whose beliefs extended any further.—
Jeffrey Collins,
WSJ,
12 Mar. 2021
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Part Phil Jackson, part Pete Carroll and Bill Walsh, the dogma of Steve Kerr was coming to Golden State.—
Danny Emerman,
The Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2025
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As the second Trump administration brazenly bulldozes the vaunted wall of separation between church and state, such destruction will also erode precious individual liberties which depend on keeping dogma out of government.—
Annie Laurie Gaylor,
Orlando Sentinel,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Monotheism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monotheism. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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