The Main Myth About Religion: Debunking Primordial Monotheism
Based on a video lecture. Video lecture: YouTube Academic religious studies are relatively free of pseudoscience compared to, say, medicine. But one myth still deserves serious attention: it can be heard not only from outright cranks but from quite respectable scholarly works. The idea in question is primordial monotheism. What the Myth Says Primordial monotheism holds that monotheism, the belief in a single god, is the original form of religious consciousness. All subsequent development of religious ideas in paganism represents degeneration, the result of a fall from grace, a loss of revelation. ...