Gods or God?

1. Mary Lefkowitz responds to the charges by around secular commentators that godliness poisons pitying life and causes endless violence and suffering by stating that the poison isnt religion its monotheism. 2. Openness to discussion and inquiry and respect for a diversity of viewpoints are some attitudes that contributed to the Athenian idea of the cooperative system of government called democracy. 3. The existence of umpteen different gods offers a more reasonable explanation than monotheism of the presence of ugly and confusion in the world. A mortal may have had the confirm of one god but incur the enmity of another, who could attack when the presenter god was away however in the monotheistic traditions, God is ubiquitous and always good and mortals must take the blame for whatever goes wrong, stock-still though God permits evil to exist in the world he created. 4.The separation between humankind and the gods made it possible for humans to reckon about the character and intentions of the gods. Greek theology allowed people to ask rough questions and encouraged others to learn and to seek all the possible causes of events. Such questions brought school of thought and science to the world. 5. Lefkowitz writes, Ancient Greek religion gives an account of the world that in many respects is more plausible than that offered by the monotheistic traditions. In this context, plausible seems to mean reasonable. The Greek account may be more plausible because Greek theology openly discourages blind confidence base on unrealistic hopes that everything will work out in the end. 6. Lefkowitz surely makes an excellent point and I definitely agree with her. Religion straight off seems to be focused too much on blind belief. thinking seems to create a healthier environment and some healthy hesitancy would definitely be helpful currently in such a stubborn world.