Sentence examples for a polytheistic state from inspiring English sources

Ebla was a polytheistic state.

2. Research the beliefs of a polytheistic religion.

Even the more accommodating Presbyterians have condemned Mormonism as a polytheistic heresy.

It is a polytheistic religion, its gods bearing monosyllabic names like Jobs and Gates, Brin and Page.

Voodoo is a polytheistic faith that came to the island with slaves from west Africa, and took on a camouflage veneer of Roman Catholicism.

Instead, early Japanese Christians incorporated elements of Buddhism and Shinto into their faith until it became a polytheistic creed of its own.

Vedism was a polytheistic sacrificial religion involving the worship of numerous male divinities (and a few goddesses), most of whom were connected with the sky and natural phenomena.

The exhibition will look at how Egypt changed over 1,200 years from a polytheistic society to a predominantly Christian and then Muslim one and also at the life of Jewish communities there.

The term (from Greek apotheoun, "to make a god," "to deify") implies a polytheistic conception of gods while it recognizes that some individuals cross the dividing line between gods and men.

Out of this evolves fetishism, belief in demons, polytheism, and, finally, monotheism, which derives from the exaltation of a great god, such as the sky god, in a polytheistic context.

Those made of sterner stuff prefer the more puritanical oratory of Nouriel Roubini, forever preaching hellfire and damnation for those (particularly the Federal Reserve) who fail to repent.Finance seems to be a polytheistic rather than a monotheistic faith.