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Poly 4 36.36%
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Old August 13th, 2009, 06:33 AM   #1
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I'm not here to judge.
I'm just wondering if Polytheism exists much anymore in first world countries.
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Old August 13th, 2009, 06:37 AM   #2
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Um... Hinduism, Buddhism and countless other Polytheistic religions are still pursued today. Just not as much as they used to be.
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Old August 13th, 2009, 06:39 AM   #3
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Um... Hinduism, Buddhism and countless other Polytheistic religions are still pursued today. Just not as much as they used to be.
Yeah. Just never hear anyone talking about those religions in America.
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Old August 13th, 2009, 06:43 AM   #4
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Yeah. Just never hear anyone talking about those religions in America.
I know quite a few people with those religions listed above and they have no problem with talking about it. Half of the time they'll be the ones to start off the discussions about it.

There are still a good amount of people who are polytheistic even in America.
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Old August 13th, 2009, 06:44 AM   #5
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Well, while America's population is diverse, America mostly consists of Christians so... Yeah, talks about it are rare just about everywhere. At least in large groups I mean.
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Old August 13th, 2009, 06:49 AM   #6
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I think I am just extremely sheltered by the Christian blanket, anyway. Oh wait... Mormanism. I think that's polytheistic. Isn't the ultimate goal to be your own god in that religion?
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Old August 23rd, 2009, 04:09 AM   #7
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Isn't Christianity technically polytheistic since there's the Trinity and everything?

Or am I just being stupid?
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Old August 23rd, 2009, 05:54 AM   #8
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Isn't Christianity technically polytheistic since there's the Trinity and everything?

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That's one thing religions like Muslims have against Christendom.

I personally would technically consider the trinity doctrine a polytheistic belief. However, not all Christian denominations believe in that doctrine.
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Maybe this is just me, but if there's more than one God, then there's an infinity of them, because if there's a God for all the subdivisions of whatever, there'd end up being an unlimited number of them.
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Maybe this is just me, but if there's more than one God, then there's an infinity of them, because if there's a God for all the subdivisions of whatever, there'd end up being an unlimited number of them.
That makes my head hurt thinking about it. haha
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Yeah, a fiction writer kind of also helped me come to such a conclusion.

Neil Gaiman ftw.
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Old August 23rd, 2009, 06:41 AM   #12
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Maybe this is just me, but if there's more than one God, then there's an infinity of them, because if there's a God for all the subdivisions of whatever, there'd end up being an unlimited number of them.
Infinite? That's hard to comprehend. Still I [slightly] get your point.

I look at it this way anyway, anyone or anything that is worshiped or some type of exclusive devotion and dedication is given to in effect is a god. Be it money, a job, any object, a famous person, a hobby, or even an idea, all these things can be gods to people. Then add that to the already existing billions of deities, this would be giving us an almost endless combination to what can be considered a god.

But as personally I believe, there's only one true God. All the rest of these gods are worshiped in vain.
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Buddhism isn't a polytheistic religion... in fact they do not believe in a high being per ce.... Buddhists believe there is a higher state of "enlightenment", which is different.
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Maybe this is just me, but if there's more than one God, then there's an infinity of them, because if there's a God for all the subdivisions of whatever, there'd end up being an unlimited number of them.
I find that more plausible that one omnipotent God who can make everything all peachy yet doesn't.

At least the "Old Gods" were human imo
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