Why do Religious groups persacute each other?

[Big Jim P]

Hinduism, which I think is profound and has anticipated quantum mechanics by millenia, is nevertheless polytheistic.

Celtic religion, with which i feel some affinity, is polytheistic.

Is Judaeo-Christianity polytheistic? There seem to be many references in scripture to some sort of heavenly council, in which God is conferring with other deities; the one which seems most striking to me is in Genesis
"003:022 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us,
to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand,
and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

003:023 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden,
to till the ground from whence he was taken.
"

So, I believe there is one grand deity but many lesser ones.

I would say that Judeo-Christianity has polytheistic roots, but then again, since mans earliest religions were polytheistic, and all other religions evolved from them, that could be said of all theistic religions.

[Free Soviets]

I assume you've never heard of the royal "we", where a single entity uses a plural to refer to themselves?

usually you don't then proceed to talk to yourself in some sort of crazed ventriloquist act

[Tokos]

There is inescapable ambiguity when the plural is used to refer to what we, after the fact, refer to as a unity.

Trinity.

bad-dum!

[Pope Joan]

There is inescapable ambiguity when the plural is used to refer to what we, after the fact, refer to as a unity.

Trinity.

bad-dum!

You know that the main reason Islam rejects Christianity is because they accuse us of tritheism, right?

[2nd PLT]

shūkyō dantai no tame , oroka sa re , sorezore , ta no hakugai . īe shinken ni , jissai ni shōhi denryoku wa , korera no kotogara no atama , sō shihai no subete no chikara wo zen sekai ni to no sore to omo~tsu ta . ima wa dare ka kenryoku no ichi ni so~tsu te ki ta ni setsuritsu sa re ta toki mā sō de nai kamo shire nai , korera no koto wa , genzai no shunō wa , itsuka , to no ma no shōsai wo nozon da . un , sore wa isshinkyō no shūkyō wa omo ni dono yō ni reihai wo shi , kami wa kare ni mo kakawara zu , karera wa hotondo onaji desu ka , subete no onaji kai , ōku no ikyō no shūkyō kara nusuma re ta mono wo fukumu īarasou yō da . kore wa , subete , omo ni watashi no iken desu . shi te kudasai watashi wo kyosei shi nai de kudasai .

Ma che cazzo te stai a dì? Ma parla come magni!

Gopfertori, würk schuderhaft interessant das aues, s'hett scho mau müesse düregäh si.

nani ？ watashi wa nani wo i~tsu te iru ga tsuka nai ga , watashi wa korera no hon'yaku ga hitsuyō desu . ika no izure ka yori mo yoi 1.
What the fuck you're a day? But speaking as a magnet!
watashi wa , Risottiaga i~tsu ta koto wa nai to omou .

Okay Seriously I need the Translation for what Risottia and Gopferdammi have said.
It's driving me crazy.

[UnhealthyTruthseeker]

I like tooltime9901's objection to the bible's monotheism. If YHWH knew that he was the only god, then why did there need to be a first commandment?

"I am the lord your god. You shall have no other gods before me." or some such. Why was that necessary? He could have easily said "I'm the only god that actually exists, so it makes no sense to worship other gods." That would have been far more sensible if he knew he was the only one.

The answer seems to be that the early Jews were probably only partially monotheistic. Sure, they only worshiped one god, but they probably thought that plenty of other gods existed.

[Bears Armed]

I like tooltime9901's objection to the bible's monotheism. If YHWH knew that he was the only god, then why did there need to be a first commandment?

"I am the lord your god. You shall have no other gods before me." or some such. Why was that necessary? He could have easily said "I'm the only god that actually exists, so it makes no sense to worship other gods." That would have been far more sensible if he knew he was the only one.

The answer seems to be that the early Jews were probably only partially monotheistic. Sure, they only worshiped one god, but they probably thought that plenty of other gods existed.

The term for that viewpoint is "henotheistic".