Monotheism vs. Polytheism; The problems with one Deity. The philosophical investigation of the nature and grounds of religious beliefs is one of the oldest and most persistent areas of philosophical endeavor. Religious belief and practice give rise to a variety of philosophical issues, posing epistemological questions about the justification of religious belief, metaphysical questions about the nature of God and his/her existence in plural or singular form(s), and ethical questions about the relation …showed first 75 words of 976 total…

…showed last 75 words of 976 total…Polytheism is a demonstrable option; call on different deities from different systems, and you get very different responses. A lot of pantheons have a "boss" who organizes things, but not all of them do. The vast majority at least have "departments" because virtually all deities and other powers specialize in one or more spheres of influence. All the deities that people really deal with are subsets of the Ultimate Divinity, not the whole universal set.