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 …
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Replying to @NocturnalSatyr
This is monotheistic because it ultimately derives from a single principle, which is named God, who is the "God of gods"
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Replying to @AnarchicEvolist
I'd agree to disagree with you immensely, would Zeus being the "King of the Gods, God of Gods" infer that Hellenics were just monotheists? El being "God of Gods" just puts him at the top of the Council which is typical ANE (and paganism altogheter) cosmology. Top dog.
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Replying to @NocturnalSatyr
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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Replying to @AnarchicEvolist @NocturnalSatyr
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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Replying to @Akhlys_ @NocturnalSatyr
Surely but what is meant by God is precisely the Supreme Principle
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Replying to @AnarchicEvolist @NocturnalSatyr
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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