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> most of today's major religions are monotheistic. While certainly most people are monotheistic, it's really just two religions, and they worship the same god
by wyattpeak 8y ago
> most of today's major religions are monotheistic.
While certainly most people are monotheistic, it's really just two religions, and they worship the same god.
Polytheism seems deeply default.
- tim333 8y agoLooking at wikipedia it seems to be 57% mono, 20% poly, 23% null (secular or buddhist).
- wyattpeak 8y agoSure, but that monotheisic number isn't a large number of religions. It's completely dominated by what are all offshoots of the same religion. Almost every culture that develops religion independently develops a polytheistic religion. Those almost never morph into monotheistic religions. The numbers of adherents are just dominated by Christianity and Islam, which are by no coincidence the principle proselytising religions in history. In fact proselytism was historically rarely observed outside of those two religions.
- tim333 8y agoI guess it's easier to proselytise for the one true God than for an assortment.