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Part I. ended with the observation monotheism seems to have an innate proclivity to violence and it has inspired some of the most noble people in history. It asked “Why?”
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It's a Golden Age of polytheist publishing.
To incisive works such as John Michael Greer's World Full of Gods and Steven Dillon's A Case for Polytheism, we can now add W. D. Wilkerson's Walking with the Gods, in which 24 (counting Wilkerson herself, 25) contemporary polytheists tell their own stories. It's a pioneering, and invaluable, study of Polytheism-as-Lived in the modern world.
Sigh. If only the news were better.
During the Middle Ages, the Christians of western Europe disparagingly referred to Muslims as paynim, “pagans.”
Likewise, Muslims of the day dismissed Christians as mashrikûn, “polytheists.”
Monotheist slagging monotheist with mutual accusations of being us.
Gods.
How sweet is that?
Before the blog entry proper, Id like to state that the ideas proposed are still in a somewhat incubatory stage. That said, I invite your criticism and thoughts on the topic. Still needing to flesh out the ideas and needing better metaphors, I offer up the discussion here for better ways to express these thoughts. Thank you.
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We talk about “Christianity,” as if there actually were such a thing.
But of course there isn't.
You'd think that pagans, of all people, would know better.
