Polytheism vs Monotheism with John Michael Greer
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What Is God and What Are Gods?
If we split with monotheism and then polytheism what is god and what are gods? What are gods? Okay we can take the word god to, I mean this is one of the great footballs, okay what does this word mean? To a monotheist the word god means the infinity eternal omni, omni,. omni, you know being and there's only one of it. That's what the word means to them and they are very very defensive about raising barricades around that word so only they can use it. One historic problem of course is that that word was used by the Anglo-Saxons for their own polytheist, the deities of their
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