I can’t precisely articulate my 1 big polyatheistic disbelief (and feel no particular need to do so, since I think theism/atheism debates are futile+pointless) but suffice it to say: polyatheism is as much stronger a position than atheism as atheism is stronger than agnosticism.
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Replying to @vgr
Absence of theism via the 'a' implies disbelief in many gods, does it not? It's inherently general, no? I think only for Nietzsche is it "mono-god is dead," and even then, only in context. 'a'='without' + 'theism'='religion, in general'pic.twitter.com/oDrIr7r1CR
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Yes but I like to make it explicit since most atheistic positions are monoatheistic in practice and there’s interesting additional commitments in polytheistic positions that need countering. Monotheism is a simpler structure to refute basically.
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Replying to @max_arbitrage
all modern western atheists because they don't actually grok what polytheism is about so they don't grok the delta that needs additional refutation/skepticism
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Replying to @max_arbitrage
Most Indians don't get it either, if it's any consolation. Monotheistic flavors of Brahminism have largely overlaid base true polytheism.
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Replying to @max_arbitrage
You misunderstood... the "original" polytheism had largely vanished by ~1200 AD so it's an archaeological effort to reconstruct it now.
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