Monotheism barely exists

[ComradeMeow]

I remember a few days ago I was poking around some Apologist website, and it said something like this:

"The basis of Christianity: the holy trinity."

So it's based on a contradiction. Not a good start. I feel like they make these religious stories deliberately contrived and impossible, to make the believer feel special for being able to "understand" it. If it was just, "That guy over there is in charge, free tea and coffee" people would get bored and wander off.

This is why we have things like theology of course. It stems from two apparent matters:

• Since no proposed god has any evidence of being real and only evidence stating the opposite, theists must speak on the god's behave to supplement for its lack of voice.
  
• Since scripture is too contrived and contradictory the theists must make failed attempts to rationalize their religion and its scripture. 
  

[ComradeMeow]

Archaically speaking no difference was made with subordinate gods(angels) and evil gods(demons or Satan). So Satan is indeed as much of a god as anything else in the Bible. We of course just have better labels to describe such gods now.

Heck, the Bible told a whole herd of folks that they were gods.  So maybe we are gods too.

Psalm 82:6-7; John 10:34-38

These are some very interesting scriptures. They promote a form of auto-theism that is very Satanic ironically since modern day Satanists preach this same concept.

[Redbeard The Pink]

To pick rather a large nit, saints in Catholicism aren't worshipped.  Nor are angels or Mary.  Saints and Mary, particularly, are venerated.  This isn't the same as worship, which is reserved for God as expressed in the Trinity (which isn't a polytheistic concept, either).  To put it very basically, saints are never, ever prayed to, although it may appear as such to non-Catholics.  God is prayed to, saints are asked to intercede with God on behalf of the penitent.  The 'logic' behind this is that saints are especially favoured by God, and they might put in a good word (so to speak) with God for you.  Arguably the most famous prayer in Catholicism - Ave Maria - isn't a prayer to Mary, but a prayer asking Mary to pray for sinners.

It makes a weird king of sense if you were raised Catholic and said rosaries til your tongue went numb. 

Boru

It may be very catholic to apply a different label to the treatment of Jehovah and the treatment of the saints, but they're effectively the same thing, really.

If you're asking some invisible people to intercede on your behalf with some other invisible people, then it seems to me that you're praying to all the invisible people involved. If you sing songs praising those invisible people and tell stories about how awesome those invisible people are, how are those different than the worshipful songs and stories proclaimed about that one, special, central invisible person? The only way it makes sense is if you're willing to use a different word for the same thing and then believe they are two different things because the words are different.

[Spooky]

I would define 'god' as anything or anybody you would pray to. Praying to saints/angels would as far as I'm concerned be considered worship, so that they are considered gods.

Maybe god just has Dissociative Identity Disorder?