Monotheism

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The belief of only one god.

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Christianity is a form of monotheism.
  Judaism and Islam are also forms of monotheism.
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Catholic Encyclopedia: Monotheism

Monotheism

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Monotheism, belief in the existence of one god  and from atheism, the belief that there is no god. Monotheism characterizes the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and elements of the belief are discernible in numerous other religions.
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Orphic Sages

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Is a philosophy that has the idea of original sin, and there are constant ongoing cycles. Once something happens it will repeat itself in the future. It also has the aspect that everyone and everything with be reincarnated as something different, going back to the cycles.
 


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Orphic sages are the priest-like figures in orphism.

Orphic sages would perform many mysterious rituals and ceremonies.

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 Orphic's Hymn









The Orphic Sage: Bronson Allcott


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The people of the Orphic Sages believe in Witchcraft.  The belief of orphism is that chaos and order have the ability to coexist in life simultaneously, without conflict.  People that believe in this have different morals and tend to hurt others that do not.




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Christianity

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The religion derived from Jesus Christ, based on the Bible as sacred scripture, and professed by Eastern, Roman Catholic, and Protestant bodies.

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Grendel has a Christianity background.

Jesus the Saviour in Christianity.



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Christian Defined
Christians and the holy places


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Christianity is practice throughout the United States.  Christianity comes from the death of Jesus Christ who died for all of man's sins. Christianity recognizes the Bible as religious text, and is the most commonly practiced religion in the world.



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Paganism

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Any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism

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His mission was to convert the pagan irish people to christianity.

Within a century pagans would be persecuted because they would not conform to the state religion that ensured the safety of the empire.

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Paganism

Catholic Encyclopedia


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Paganism includes most of the Eastern religions and the indigenous traditions of the America's.  Characteristics of a pagan are living mythology, practice religion.



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Monism

Definition:
noun

Is a philosophical position which argues that the variety of existing things can be explained in terms of a single reality or substance.The wide definition states that all existing things go back to a source which is distinct from them. The common, restricted definition implies also a unity of substance and essence.


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Substance monism need not have any implications concerning god or an absolute in either a theistic or pantheistic sense.

A methodological monism of empirical science assumes that everything is essentially matter.


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Monist Theory

Monism and Statespace Structure

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Monism is a metaphysical philiosophy that supports the idea that there is only one concrete substance of reality. It states that the mind and body are not necessarily separate, distinct, substances, but are rather composed of the same neutral "stuff." In monism, minds and bodies are viewed as collections of impressions or perceptions, the primary data of experience. Hume has been noted to contribute some ministic views,


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Plato's Allegory of the Cave

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A dialogue/scenario included in Plato's The Republic about our nature as humans regarding education and our nature's want of education. This dialogue, written by Plato, exemplifies Socrates and includes discussion with Plato's brother, Glaucon.
 
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In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” Socrates describes a literal journey from an underground cave into the light of the sun

The allegory is representation of Plato’s concept of Truth and the challenge of philosophical thought.


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Plato's, Allegory of the Cave

Plato's Cave

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Plato has Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to Plato's Socrates, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.

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Atheism

Definition:

Noun

The theory or belief that God does not exist.

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Those who recognize god's presence in the face of god-forsaken christ have protest atheism within themselves -- but as something they have overcome.

Indeed, it seems like the supreme irony that militant atheism has managed to acquire the mentality of a religion.


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Atheism

Carm-Atheism

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Atheism is the religious doctrine or belief that denies the existence of divinity. Most atheist do not believe in god and a afterlife.  Atheism is not very popular now but is increasing.



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