Quotes About Monotheism

Judaism has always been uncool, going back to its origins as the planet's only monotheism, featuring a bossy and unsexy invisible God. Uncoolness is pretty much Judaism's brand, which is why cool people find it so threatening

am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. (Isa. 45:5–6)

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.

Judaism, the one and only directly and divinely revealed religion in the world

the God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—is moral today.

Monotheism by whatever name has been the rationale for war and genocide forever. And the Unchosen, the inferior Others, are always demonized as an excuse to oppress them.

Monotheism has also been recognized as inherently intolerant.

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more god and become atheism.

Unbelief and belief are both marching on His road, while both are saying, 'He is one and He has no associates'.

La incredulidad y la creencia están ambas marchando sobre SU camino, mientras ambas dicen: 'Él es uno y Él no tiene socios'.

Corresponding to the image of a monotheistic God is monogamous marriage. Marriage based on exclusive and definitive love becomes the icon of the relationship between God and his people and vice versa.

I am the LORD, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God….I am the LORD, and there is no other.

person who fellowships with God must know that there is a God, that God is a Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – and not Allah, or Buddha, his neighbor's cat, or the tree in his backyard.

monotheism was not a specifically Jewish revolution because it predated Abraham by several generations. The Jewish revolution was ethical monotheism

Anyone who believes in the power of God and the power of Satan can surely not be viewed as a pure monotheist.

Say: I am only a mortal like you; it is revealed to me that your God is one God, therefore follow the right way to Him and ask His forgiveness; and woe to the polytheists; (To) those who do not give poor-rate and they are unbelievers in the hereafter.

And yet the writer who first brought monotheism to full formulation and who so clearly felt that this idea was destined to sweep the world was, in point of historical fact, quite correct. The spread of this idea, principally through Christianity and Islam, has not been what he foresaw; and in the diffusion of the idea the Jews have been more often vilified than glorified. Yet Christianity and Islam do understand themselves to worship the same being that Israel first worshiped

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

If therefore the Father is the God of Christ and the same one is our God, and if there is no God but one, there can be no God beside the Father.

They might add that monotheism is a political and psychological ideology as well as a religious one, and that the old economic lesson that one-crop economies generally fare poorly also applies to the spiritual realm.

Monotheistic Yahwism resembled neither a Greek philosophical notion of Deity as nonsexual Being nor some type of divine bisexuality. Instead, Israelite society perceived Yahweh primarily as a god, embodying traits or values expressed by gendered metaphors yet transcending such particular renderings. It is unnecessary and it is not supported by any biblical text to argue that monotheistic Yahweh involved either androgyny or homoeroticism

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

The central theological principle of the Bible [is] the rejection of idolatry.

lslam is monotheism customized for Arab pride