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Modern atheism is mostly a continuation of monotheism by other means, and nowhere more so than in radical political movements that claim to have rejected religion entirely.

I, too, was in town on a pilgrimage, visiting a site that predates Abraham and Job and monotheism by some eight millennia: a vast complex of Stonehenge-style megalithic circles in the Urfa countryside.

For example Chapter 4, Patriarchal Business Models, contains a description of how Abraham began successfully building the brand of monotheism by using a bold marketing technique, namely smashing all the idols in his father's shop.

Sabellianism, named after Sabellius (flourished c. 220), possibly a Roman presbyter, sought to preserve a strict monotheism by holding that Jesus was a form of the one God, a temporary mode of God's revelation.

From recognition of basic similarities one might reason to a sort of monotheism, by the lights of which, for persons given to theology, local deities were no more than narrow expressions of greater truths.

In short, Venkatanatha preserves monotheism by denying that God and his divine consort are ontologically distinct.

Nietzsche's attempt to "see science through the optic of art, and art through that of life," like Arnold's and Mill's substitution of poetry for religion, is an attempt to make more room for individuality than can be provided either by orthodox monotheism, or by the Enlightenment's attempt to put science in the place of religion as a source of Truth.

It illustrates both the diversity of cultures that participated in the Islamic civilization and the unifying force of Islamic monotheism represented by the spacious expanse of the mosque a veritable externalization of the all-enveloping divine unity, heightened by the sense of infinity of the arabesque design.

The "religious" children were not only more willing to accept supernatural stories in a religious context, but also they were more willing to believe purely fictional narratives.What does this report have to do with the bold and best-selling ideas about monotheism proffered by Reza Aslan, an Iranian-American religion writer?

Historically, the most interesting philosophical puzzles concerning petitionary prayer have arisen in connection with the traditional monotheism shared by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Muslims also charge trinitarians with committing the serious sin of "associating" another with God, a charge raised in the Qur'an itself, and hold up Islam as a monotheism unencumbered by mysteries.