Monday, September 10, 2007
Mono culture
Monopoly or oligarchy in economy is so common. How about monarchy? United Kingdom & Japan's political system are constitutional monarchy. How about monotheism? Overwhelming people around the world are believers of monotheistic religions. How about monogamy? Monogamy is only allowed form of marriage in Western civilisations. Virtually one party - Liberal Democrats has been ruling Japan's politics for half a century. The influence of one language has been expanding a lot.
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You'll find monotheism is not as overwhelming a majority as you might think. Although I suppose that depends on whether you consider religions like Buddhism and Hinduism to be monotheistic, which I do not. Animists in Africa, Shintoists in Japan, Taoism, Chinese folk religions, Wicca, probably at least 1/3 of the world's population is not monotheistic. Of the 10 religions with the largest number of adherents, we find Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Jainism, none of which are strictly monotheistic.
ReplyDeletePersonally I'm increasingly sour on monothesitic religions, except perhaps Judiaism.
The use of the term 'overwhelming' in monotheistic religion is apparently too far. Probably Judaism is more monotheistic than Christianity since some Christian believe Jesus is God. Many religions are henotheistic -nominally monotheistic but in reality polytheistic.
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