God Arises
Review
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prophet who, it has been established, exhorted
people to believe in one God. Moreover,
‘Polytheism’ does not mean a multiplicity in the
absolute sense, as is commonly understood. No
nation has ever been ‘polytheist’ in the sense that it
believed in many gods of the same order. In fact,
polytheism implies a hierarchy with one ‘Supreme
God’ at the top and his entourage of demi-gods
spreading downwards from Him on the rungs of
the divine ladder. Polytheism has always carried
with it the concept of a ‘God of gods’. This shows
how baseless are the claims of this so-called
evolutionary religion.
The Marxist approach to history is even more bereft
of meaning, being based on the hypothesis that it is
economic conditions, alone, which are the real
factors which shape man. According to Marx,
religion came into existence in an age of feudalism
and capitalism. Since these systems were tyrannical
and fostered exploitation, the moral and religious
concepts which evolved under them had, of
necessity, reflected their environment. They were
no more than doctrines which condoned and
upheld exploitation. But this theory does not,
