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[Lord Summerisle]

Wow, that's pretty arrogant isn't it? Some might say that it's so much easier for the primitive mind to explain the observable forces in nature by attributing them to an all powerful father figure in the sky.

Also, calling the ancient Greek mind primitive is to completely ignore the massive impact they had on democracy, science, philosophy, art, literature, sport, civilisation, and the list goes on. In fact, if it hadn't been for the rise of that monotheistic movement some 2000 years ago putting the brakes hard on free thought and progress, we could be exploring the galaxy by now.

Wow, so you believe it was the likes of Aristotle & Plato who invented and continued the concept of polytheism? If not, I'm struggling to understand the connection. Sure, you can lump all the Greeks into one pot if you prefer, just as long as you don't mind me lumping you along with the religious fanatics too, eh? Much of Greek society was indeed very primitive, even though they did have their brilliant philosopher/mathematicians who were arguably well ahead of their time. Its the same today, some people are clever, but the majority leave much to be desired.

It can be argued that monotheism is what dragged western pagan barbarism into what has since become known as western civilisation.
Furthermore, had it not been for monotheism - the dark ages could well have laster far longer than it did - bearing in mind the only written records which survive from the period (in western Europe) are from the "monotheists". It was the church that carried us through it in the end, at least in western Europe.
Monotheism had nothing to do with the collapse of the Roman empire, the collapse often attributed to the defeat at Adrianople (ironically in the Eastern Roman empire, but caused the west to fall) which was the result of Roman arrogance and reluctance to keep pace with the evolving warfare of the period, not to mention the constant infighting among the Roman ruling class and so on - nothing to do with monotheism. If I'm mistaken, I'll be quite happy to stand corrected.