(March 10, 2018 at 11:17 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: As far as Christian doctrines evolving from Prior pagan myths... polytheism evolved from monotheism, not the other way around.
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(March 12, 2018 at 2:21 am)Khemikal Wrote:(March 11, 2018 at 5:11 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: That's nonsense because plenty of native American tribes were every bit monotheistsThose that weren't cut and dry polytheists were..like yahweh cultists, henotheists. Henotheism has, traditionally, been the bridge between earlier forms of polytheism and later forms of monotheism.
Christianity is not monotheism, nor it is polytheism. Christianity is henotheism - meaning that only one deity among many should be worshiped because Christians still believe in a host of supernatural beings, particularly angels and the devil. They are beings created by the one all-powerful Creator - just as the Egyptian deities were the product of the one all powerful Egyptian Creator.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
