All the Gods

The Abrahamic religions' idea of monotheism was baked into Enlightenment Science. The idea of an omnipotent and omniscient god was reflected in the belief that comprehensive understanding of the universe is available to man. The monotheist belief persists in the toxic philosophies of today, where higher consciousness only means one person is a better liar than another and the philosopher is like a priest or a prophet of a monotheist cult that's dedicated to an almost arbitrary cause. According to this model of man and his place in the universe, the blind prophet of the doomsday cult Aum Shin Rikio Chizuo Matsumoto represents an ideal. Similarly, his followers who helped build a billion dollar crime ring, are worthy of praise because of their commitment to the cause of destroying the world.

In the classical and even prehistorical world, polytheism and animism ruled the minds of men, where the Gods were of nature, that is, a poetic understanding of nature that was reflected in stories and myths. Polytheism or animism seem like a rational, or moderate choice for limited beings like men. Why would there be an eternal, omnipotent being in a universe of limitations? Why would the pattern of relationships between creatures we observe daily in the natural world: symbiosis, parasitism, predator, and prey be different for the supernatural or metaphysical world?

All the gods of the classical pantheon represent the whole of the world, a whole that's beyond the ability of the human mind to represent in terms of either a formal language like mathematics, or in scriptures.

It is a really good question if a polytheist mind is more likely to lead to political moderation or even religious moderation.