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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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The dominant Christian theology of the Middle Ages held that wealth was inherently sinful in a world where most people toiled in terrible poverty.—
Brian Klaas,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025
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On his education and what qualifies him for the position A resident of St. Paul, Bau has an undergraduate degree in philosophy and a master’s degree in theology from Bethel University.—
Imani Cruzen,
Twin Cities,
6 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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Following a judicial doctrine established by the 1971 case Mindes v. Seaman, courts typically defer to the judgment of military authorities in determining how the armed forces should function.—
Natalie Shibley / Made by History,
TIME,
21 Feb. 2025
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The state of Michigan wants to shut down the pipeline, saying that a 1953 easement for the pipeline’s operation violated the state’s public trust doctrine.—
Lisa Friedman,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 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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But should authorities banish all religious beliefs that differ with the state’s secular dogma?—
Dan Miller,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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The central dogma in molecular biology is a very beautiful thing.—
Ingrid Wickelgren,
Quanta Magazine,
5 Feb. 2025
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