The Question Lady writes:
Are you instinctively more of a monotheist or a polytheist?
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Poly / henotheistic.
There cannot be an infinite god, from simple logic. Whatever we worship is fallible, as our fathers were fallible when we were growing up.
We should serve our gods anyway, because they are our gods.
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HENOtheist.
I prefer that whatever gods I worship, are my gods; and that I serve them because they are mine.
(And simple logic goes against that there be only one god that is infinite.)
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Oh. NOW I get it. There is auto-moderation when I post a specific html as my website, and normal moderation otherwise. So, don’t delete that first comment…
I am a henotheist. I accept (not believe – *accept*) that there cannot be one god only. This is basic logic.
But if I were to be a believer, I would serve my gods, like I respect my own father. My father is not perfect; I do not expect my gods to be perfect, either. I would serve my gods because they are mine.
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Sorry for any confusion about moderation policies. I think all comments by non-posters have to be approved (comments by UR posters go up immediately). But not entirely sure — we’re still learning our way around wordpress.com. Thanks for being patient, and fun to hear about your henotheism. I had to head over to Wikipedia to refresh myself on what henotheism is about.
Me, I’ve always found monotheism completely perplexing. It never made any instinctive sense to me at all. (Incidentally, I’m talking about feeling, intimations, etc — nothing intellectual.) I don’t even fully understand the appeal of it. Why would anyone want to buy into it? By contrast, the ancient pagan religions and the Eastern religion/philosophies always spoke to me right away. They were talking about the world (and about life in it, and as part of it) as I experienced it.
Curious to hear what others — including The Question Lady herself — have to say about this.
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I think of The Question Lady as a Goddess.
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I was raised Catholic and have a strong sympathy for Judaism, so I guess you can put me down in the mono column. Can’t say I have a strong instinctual feeling on this one, though.
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I was raised Jewish, and the one is the One. I didn’t understand it at all until I started to see that everything is part of the one. It’s really pretty Jewish of an idea,
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Thank you, Scott! If that’s true, I’d like to be a Goddess of all things frivolous. I would happily leave the other things in this world to the other gods to deal with.
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A nonetheist.
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I was a big reader of Alan Watts for a while there…that Buddhism kind of stuff made instinctive sense to me. But I found it hard to tie that in with daily life, jobs, kids, traffic, etc. And it very disillusioning when I found out Watts was an alcoholic and may have died from it. Now I mostly don’t think about it.
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A good friend of mine has been an admirer of Watts for years. I should take another look at “The Book.”
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That was one of my favorites…really distilled down to simple language.
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