You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

Lumifer comments on My Kind of Moral Responsibility - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: Gram_Stone 02 May 2016 05:54AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Article Navigation

Comments (116)

Comments (116)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Lumifer 15 June 2016 02:29:50PM 0 points [-]

Who says that they didn't?

I do. If you squint hard enough you can detect monotheism in any religious system at which point the term "monotheism" loses any meaning.

I'm using the conventional approach where religions like Judaism and Christianity (in spite of the Trinity!) are monotheistic and religions like Hinduism and Shinto are not.

Comment author: bogus 16 June 2016 08:22:48AM *  1 point [-]

I'm using the conventional approach where religions like Judaism and Christianity (in spite of the Trinity!) are monotheistic and religions like Hinduism and Shinto are not.

But the point is, the ancestral version of what would later evolve into Judaism was far from monotheistic; much like Chinese folk religion. As with almost anything else in history, monotheism was a gradual development.

Comment author: Lumifer 16 June 2016 02:27:11PM 0 points [-]

Sure. But let's go a bit upthread and look at my original sentence:

This point will also need to explain why large civilizations (e.g. China) did NOT develop anything which looks like monotheism.

Note the word "develop".

Comment author: ChristianKl 16 June 2016 04:00:28PM 0 points [-]

Christianity not only has the trinity but also a bunch of saints towards whom you can pray and who then supposedly intervene. Additionally there are a bunch of angels. There's the devil and demons.

Powered by Reddit Powered by Reddit