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Recent Examples of polytheism
The Pope's polytheism places him among the people of Hell.
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Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Religious history Fascinating finds related to religious history tell a story of diverse belief systems from the polytheism of the ancient Greeks and Romans to Buddhism and Christianity.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Also, Akhenaten’s successor tried to steer religion back to polytheism, which is contrary to Nefertiti’s earlier views.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2024
Nor does the divide between Mesopotamian polytheism and Jewish monotheism pose a problem.
—Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
Pagan polytheism in ancient Rome was dizzyingly complicated, the gods seen as constant companions who hovered over the city’s mortal residents from birth to death, communicating with them incessantly but obliquely from their temples and shrines.
—David Laskin Martin Pauer, New York Times, 1 May 2023
Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Religious history Fascinating finds related to religious history tell a story of diverse belief systems from the polytheism of the ancient Greeks and Romans to Buddhism and Christianity.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Also, Akhenaten’s successor tried to steer religion back to polytheism, which is contrary to Nefertiti’s earlier views.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2024
Nor does the divide between Mesopotamian polytheism and Jewish monotheism pose a problem.
—Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
Pagan polytheism in ancient Rome was dizzyingly complicated, the gods seen as constant companions who hovered over the city’s mortal residents from birth to death, communicating with them incessantly but obliquely from their temples and shrines.
—David Laskin Martin Pauer, New York Times, 1 May 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for polytheism
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Raphael envisioned his design as a series of murals depicting the triumph of Christianity over paganism: The Vision of the Cross, The Battle of the Milvian Bridge, The Baptism of Constantine and The Donation of Rome.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 July 2025
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Leland presented European material as the survival of an ancient pagan cult—moreover, a paganism that had been demonized by Christianity.—
Angelica Frey,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Apr. 2025
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For instance, according to Alawite beliefs, Ali, the son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad, is a divine manifestation of God, which challenges the idea of strict monotheism central to Sunni Islam.—
Güneş Murat Tezcür,
The Conversation,
23 July 2025
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Freud, too, proposed that Moses was an Egyptian prince who invented monotheism (or stole it from Akhenaten).—
Louis Menand,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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In 1809, Friedrich’s budding pantheism landed him in hot water.—
Zachary Fine,
The New Yorker,
28 June 2024
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If anyone is wondering, stoicism and pantheism are my preferred lenses through to view the world.—
Christa Allen,
Allure,
28 May 2021
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This foundation was laid by the school's namesake, Clara Muhammad, who was the wife of the Nation of Islam's leader, Elijah Muhammad, and an educator who promoted Black empowerment and Islamic theology.—
Everett Eaton,
jsonline.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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As a teacher of theology, medicine, or law, she is not known.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
26 Sep. 2025
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The Chinese Communists aren’t trying to extirpate every last trace of theism, thereby inviting the undivided opposition of religious believers and institutions (as the Soviets did with regard to John Paul II’s Vatican).—
Cameron Hilditch,
National Review,
21 Feb. 2021
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Thoreau moves fluidly between the two, shuttling between the divine and the here-and-now, between theism and materialism.—
Longreads,
Longreads,
13 July 2017
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The day stands in direct opposition to the Western doctrine of discovery and the mythologizing of colonization.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Oct. 2025
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Cities are still constrained by a legal doctrine from the 1870s known as Dillon’s Rule, named for a judge in Iowa, that said states control cities.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
8 Oct. 2025
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This vague gesture in the direction of deism has no antecedent in the book, no moral or theological trajectory to make Bambi’s insight meaningful or satisfying.—
Kathryn Schulz,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2022
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Those intuitions usually commended a staid deism and scorn for those whose beliefs extended any further.—
Jeffrey Collins,
WSJ,
12 Mar. 2021
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“Polytheism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polytheism. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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