polytheism
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Polytheism assumes several divine wills, divergent, possibly conflicting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Polytheism was at the heart of Mecca's economic and social life.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tolerant spirit of Polytheism did not restrict the number of gods, and the ministers of superstition seemed always ready to reconcile the most discordant systems.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John
X. Xenophanes, his attack on Polytheism, 130; his faith in one God, 153, 306, 307.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
Pantheism and Polytheism, Judaism and Islamism, Protestantism, and even the various Protestant as well as Mahometan sects, call forth corresponding social and political forms.
From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
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