Monotheism vs Polytheism

[Aleksey_aka_al]

If the society wasn't dreaming with god(s), it would achieve longevity and godlike level of technology muuuch faster.

 

[warpus]

I prefer Monotheism because it's a stepping stone to Atheism. Throw out your gods one by one and you end up with 0.

 

[Virote_Considon]

There are only two good things that start with pan, and that's pandas on the one hand, and pansexuality on the other.

The Great God PAN.

 

[Patine]

Where is the option on that poll for, "I'm a Civ2 diehard, where religion is highly abstracted and your starting location and resources mean nothing in regards to successfully propogating and benefitting from your open-ended and ill-defined religious improvements, units, and Wonders?"

 

[Traitorfish]

I prefer Monotheism because it's a stepping stone to Atheism. Throw out your gods one by one and you end up with 0.

You say that, but atheism appeared in the polytheistic cultures of Greece, India and China over a thousand years before it appeared in Christian Europe. I'd contend that, when gods are just other beings inhabiting the universe, it's much easier to question their existence than it is in a monotheistic culture in which God is the point on which the entire universe turns.

 

[warpus]

I would hypothesize that this is both a big selling point of monotheistic religions (compared to polytheistic), as well as a hook that keeps believers believing. The more advanced our human cultures became, the more appealing to people monotheistic religions became. For instance, in the modern age it's easy to come to the understanding that half snake half man gods do not exist. However, it's much harder to come to the understanding that a creator of the universe doesn't exist either.

 

[Lexicus]

Well it's a proximity thing more than anything. Far more Papists in Franconia and Antwerp than Muslims.

Well, I think there's also a theological element to it. Those heathens are damned in any case, no skin off our bones, but the heretics may be imperiling our souls by tainting our religion with their false belief!

 

[tuckerkao]

I prefer Monotheism because it's a stepping stone to Atheism. Throw out your gods one by one and you end up with 0.

1 man cannot serve 2 masters, so Monotheism is more ideal.

 

[Broken_Erika]

1 man cannot serve 2 masters, so Monotheism is more ideal.

Yeah, but bronze working allows you to build phalanxes and research currency. Plus it allows you to research iron working when you have warrior code so you can send legions to kill those 2 masters.

 

[warpus]

1 man cannot serve 2 masters, so Monotheism is more ideal.

Sure he can. At work I serve 17 bosses.

 

[Ryika]

Sure he can. At work I serve 17 bosses.

Maybe I'm just reading too much into this, but I think you're trying to say that you're working in a REAL LIFE BOSS BRAWLER - THAT'S AMAZING!

 

[tamyrlin]

1 man cannot serve 2 masters, so Monotheism is more ideal.

Sure you can, serve 1 god you like, among the huge cast of gods . Then dump that 1 god for another, and so on.
Change god when you get disappointed with the old god or if your tastes change. Or, if you get bored.

 

[Robo-Star]

1 man cannot simultaneously serve effectively 2 masters, so Monotheism has more affinity with servitude.

 

[timtofly]

Sure he can. At work I serve 17 bosses.

I thought slavery was dead. That is what getting rid of god entails, is it not? Besides if you are getting paid, it is not service. You just have 17 people you have to answer to. The point is how do you get rid of conflicting ways to live your life.

 

[warpus]

I thought slavery was dead. That is what getting rid of god entails, is it not? Besides if you are getting paid, it is not service. You just have 17 people you have to answer to. The point is how do you get rid of conflicting ways to live your life.

Service can be rendered in many ways. I serve the needs of my bosses, whether I get paid or not is irrelevant.

As for God, even if he/she/it existed, I wouldn't serve this entity unless I was forced to and had no means to say no. Or unless the pay was good.

 

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

I have not met a god Don't know what would happen if I did met one or what I should do

Polytheism, monotheism, atheism and many more, all to me just seems to be based on blind faith. Could as well believe the games I make is reality as the kind of are in some way with me and others being the creator god or whatever you want to call it.

Would I care if we are somebody's else computer game or fiction, probably not.

 

[warpus]

Weak atheism isn't based on faith. It's essentially based on the statement: "I don't believe that {x} exists until I see a good reason to believe such a thing"

 

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

Weak atheism isn't based on faith. It's essentially based on the statement: "I don't believe that {x} exists until I see a good reason to believe such a thing"

Why even care?

Natural life. You are full of hormons in you physical body and psychologically you feel almost immortal. Thats wears off and you need to start worrying about deeper sense in life or somewhat balance your life amid constant attacks on emotional, physical and mental levels. The brute reality of life without being doped (as much) by hormons from your brain.

24 years old, don't think I have ever felt immortal or anything like you describe. Why worry when you are going to die anyway

Maybe in 100 years, maybe it is tomorrow, maybe I have played to many computer game over the years (like my whole life) so I may tend to think like just as computer game

 

[warpus]

Why even care?

If someone asks you "Do you believe that unicorns exist" and you say "Nope", does that mean you care? Even if you run away and don't answer the question, you either hold a belief that unicorns exist, or you don't hold such a belief.

Whether you care or not, if you don't believe that god(s) exist, then you are an atheist.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Even if we actually have the free will to choose what we believe, one's choice does not change what is actually true. Our choices may change how we interact with people and things around us, but, for the most part, little else is affected. Now if free will is an illusion, that changes the game substantially.