If there are over 100 named gods (of Pagans, Hindu, Egyptians, Greek, Roman), then aren't all monotheists (Jew-Christian-Muslim) in reality '99% atheists'?
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An atheïst isn't a religios person that believes in 0 gods; an atheïst believes gods are impossible.
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Over 100? Try thousands of named ones and millions of un-named ones -- Hinduism alone boasts "330 Million gods!" -- I wonder who counted them? But all these ancient polytheistic religions believed in one supreme, eternal, primordial creator god -- God with a capital "G" if you will -- though they sometimes also personified His distinct aspects and worshipped them indepently. They just believed in millions of temporal spirits (they were born, created, or just appeared sometime in the scope of history) inferior (but not necessarily subordinate) to Him, with vastly varying degrees of power and levels of jurisdiction. The Abrahamic faiths are no different: the Bible and Koran are both pretty clear that hosts of created but undying spirits exist and are in fact quite powerful compared to mortal men. We just don't worship them.
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This is similar to Richard Dawkins' argument in his book The God Delusion. He says that we all are atheists of sorts. A Christian for example is an atheist about Zeus, Apollo and Thor. Then the only diference between an atheist and a Christian is that the atheist disbelieves one more God than the Christian. Here is the fallasy of such argument: the second law of logic is the law of undistributed middle. Here is an ecample of its aplication: an elephant has ears, I have ears, therefore I am an elephant. This of course is nonsense. The second law of logic states that just becuase two (or more) objects share two (or more) similarities does not mean they are the same. Just because we have a god called Zeus and a God called Jehova does not mean they are the same.
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The CHristian God is an unnamed God. I think anyone who believes in God, is an atheist.
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