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How To Use polytheistic In A Sentence

• While Buddhism is deemed nontheistic, the Vedas are regarded as polytheistic, and the Bible is monotheistic, we have seen that the cosmogonies of Vajrayana Buddhism, Vedanta, and Neoplatonic Christianity have so much in common that they could almost be regarded as varying interpretations of a single theory. C for Confusion!
• These sculptural elements, which have polytheistic titles like "Purging Cyclops Being" and "Oval Tree Double Owls Oceania," are a little too friendly and puppetlike to stir the psyche. NYT > Home Page
• Psalm 82: 8, the most 'polytheistic' of passages in the Hebrew Bible, the idea of a real kinship of nature between 'the Most High' and his 'sons', the gods, is already contradicted by the former's judgment that the latter 'will die like humans' (Ps. 82: 7). Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
• Gradually, the people began to adopt polytheistic ideas, and worship spirits and many different gods.
• Williams also criticized the Governor for sitting cross-legged with a "dot on his forehead," and described the ceremony as "polytheistic. Mike Ghouse: Senator Williams' Remarks Offended Hindus
• (Granted, there are many other strands in the tapestry of religion, and granted, I've entirely overlooked the polytheistic and nontheistic religions, such as Hinduism and some forms of Buddhism, but in that short list above, we encompass more than half the world's population, and well over half its believers.) Clay Farris Naff: Can Evolution Tell Us What God Wants?
• There is Christianity, which, by revealing the truth, has limited the license of human reason; there is that human reason which resists revelation as a bondage -- which insists upon being atheistical, or polytheistical, or pantheistical -- which looks upon the requirements of obedience, justice, truth, and purity, as limitations of human freedom. Lothair
• You know all those deities -- the gods and goddesses that cause outsiders to think Hinduism is polytheistic? Philip Goldberg: Colbert: Try Hinduism For Lent
• Truly polytheistic Europagan groups (such as the druids) are much smaller, despite the fact that they are often older. Emasculation not required at SF Novelists
• Clearly Paul uses this as a connecting platform, without accepting a panentheistic/polytheistic/pluralist paradigm, as one can clearly glean by the immediate and larger context of Acts. Sunday School: Genesis 1:1-2:3