RE: What is a drawing of Muhammad?
November 18, 2024 at 10:47 am
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2024 at 10:52 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Akhenaten was, more accurately, a henotheist. His desire to replace the egyptian pantheon at the state level with his favored deity from that pantheon being at odds with their acceptance of other cultures deities even if akhenatens reforms held - which they didn't. That atenism (or abrahamism for that matter) is seen as "monotheistic" today boils down to a present cultural need to assert as much, but not the reality of the historic circumstances. Ultimately, it's the theistic gods themselves, and not any particular number of them, which cause the issue. All of them share in those two fundamental attributes of theistic gods and so all instantiate the issues of conceiving of divinity in that particular way. You could pick any one of them..and we have...and you will see all of the same problems, which we have. All we do when we posit a single deity is add totalitarianism to the list of defects.
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