El is the god of gods, Yahweh is (I'd argue) his subordinate for much of the OT, and there are other gods spread throughout the earth who receive worship and are truly there. How is any of this remotely monotheistic in the modern sense? Not sure why Christ is brought uphttps://twitter.com/sabbathisback/status/1059138763434180608 …
I'd argue that no valid tradition is not monotheistic, in the sense that they affirm one supreme principle, whether this is envisaged in the religious mode as God or not.
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Yes, if you make the word "monotheism" apply as generally as possible to capture any tradition that has some source of sources or supreme principle "polytheism" doesn't even exist. but the argument wasn't about that it was about denial of all but one god as real entities.
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Surely but what is meant by God is precisely the Supreme Principle
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Sure but the supreme principal is not the same as the god of the israelites who is a specific deity. The false conflation of these two very different things is arguably the source of anti-traditional elements essentially being baked in to "monotheistic" religions.
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Yes, confusion is the source of all evil
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Though in the case of Greek polytheism the picture is complicated somewhat by the fact Zeus was not the creator of the Universe-nothing was.Also Zeus usurped Cronos,implying gods can lose their supremacy. Plus the gods were subject to the Fates.
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Kronos was the Ruler of the Golden Age, thus when the Golden Age ended he was no longer worshipped by the people and even hated, but this is on the part of the people, not on the part of Kronos. Also it is said that at the end of its lifetime the Greek religion had degenerated.
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