{"id":2005,"date":"2009-10-14T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/10\/quote-of-the-day-john-wilkins\/"},"modified":"2009-10-14T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T13:17:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-john-wilkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/10\/quote-of-the-day-john-wilkins.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (John Wilkins)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cI believe that there is no such thing as a monotheism. No religion in existence lacks any nondivine or demonic entities other than the central or highest deity. If the saints and angels and demons of modern Catholicism or any other flavour of Christianity were represented in Greek mythology, we\u2019d call them gods\u2026The reason why no religion is monotheistic, not even Islam (djinn, remember, and angels), is that we have a disposition towards dramatic narratives, and a god with no peers is largely going to be boring.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">\u2014 John Wilkins, \u201cOn gods and religion\u201d, at the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/evolvingthoughts.net\/2009\/10\/14\/on-gods-and-religion\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Evolving Thoughts<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8800763069183850036?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI believe that there is no such thing as a monotheism. No religion in existence lacks any nondivine or demonic entities other than the central or highest deity. If the saints and angels and demons of modern Catholicism or any other flavour of Christianity were represented in Greek mythology, we\u2019d call them gods\u2026The reason why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Quote of the Day (John Wilkins)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;I believe that there is no such thing as a monotheism. 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