(n.) One who believes in, or maintains the doctrine of, a plurality of gods.
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.
Theist
Definition:
(n.) One who believes in the existence of a God; especially, one who believes in a personal God; -- opposed to atheist.
Example Sentences:
(1) He had the bells play John Lennon's anti-theist song Imagine as part of an arts festival, which shocked some people but helped to restore the sense that the cathedral was connected to the city's imagination.
(2) Just a week ago, Craig Hicks, an apparently militant anti-theist murdered three American Muslim college students in Chapel Hill; the FBI and local law enforcement have opened an inquiry into the possibility that it was a hate crime .
(3) I’m an anti-theist, not an atheist … I’ve been forced to confront it by meeting people morally superior to myself, braver than myself, who live in terrible countries, or very dangerous situations, and do witness in a wonderful way for the rights of others, and are self-sacrificing.
(4) When he was president, Thomas Jefferson, a fervent theist, told a group of Baptist ministers government had no business meddling in religion.