What's the difference between monotheistic and polytheistic?
Monotheistic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to monotheism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once you accept this, it is quite easy for Hume to show why nothing in what we observe of the world justifies us reaching the conclusion that it was designed by anything like the God of the monotheist religions.
(2) Once any monotheistic religion is starting, feminism is finished.
(3) Yet the conversation Abdul was having with a Ted Cruz supporter named John about the parallels between the monotheistic religions was not what Trump rallies are typically about.
(4) Later this month, the president will visit the homes of the world’s three biggest monotheistic religions – Saudi Arabia, Israel and Rome – on a tour billed as a new beginning in the struggle against extremism, before attending a Nato session in Brussels and a G7 summit in Sicily.
(5) We Christians, together with the other monotheistic religions, believe that the universe is the fruit of a loving decision by the Creator, who permits man respectfully to use creation for the good of his fellow men and for the glory of the Creator; he is not authorized to abuse it, much less to destroy it,” he said.
(6) It was necessary to prepare a sound programme in which the muhajireen might take refuge as their jihad is the result of the glory to Islam and the monotheists.
(7) They are not Christians, they are Yazidis, an ethnically Kurdish people who follow a monotheistic religion all its own.
(8) There could be no bigger deal than to somehow bring together the world’s three great monotheistic religions – and, while he is in the region, slicing through the knots of the 70 years of Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the same time, which he said on Wednesday “ may be not as difficult as people have thought over the years ”.
(9) And the story of Moses has a strange echo in the life of Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, the first monotheist known to history.
Polytheistic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Polytheistical
Example Sentences:
(1) The influence of Wahhabism meant that 90% of Islamic monuments, holy places, tombs and mausoleums in the Arabian peninsula were destroyed on the grounds that they were “polytheistic”.
(2) Of the estimated 200,000 refugees, many have reached towns in the Kurdish zone, where emergency supplies are running low; others are stranded on the mountain , dying of hunger and thirst but too afraid to move, aware that IS is killing Yazidis it finds or forcibly converting them to Islam, since it sees them as “polytheists” or – worse – “devil worshippers”.
(3) It has also destroyed significant portions of the ancient heritage of Iraq’s Assyrian community, Shia and Christian shrines that Isis says are polytheistic and contrary to its brand of puritanical Islam.
(4) "Is he a Bayern Munich fan as his birthplace might indicate, or is he as polytheistic as his predecessor?
(5) "It's the fact of the jihad, the preparation of the jihad, the fighting of the jihad, this is what causes terrors inside the hearts of the mushrik [polytheists] and even the enemies that you don't know," he added.