>>11459534This anon's got it, and it's called Syncretism. Throughout every single world religion there are nuggets of truth of degreeing scale, for they all have the same truth behind it, but interpreted (poorly or greatly) in different ways...or abused. Even if there are multiple "gods", they're all most likely different aspects of a single infinite entity, or said entity refracting itself so that it can learn more. It's actually retarded and frankly childish to believe in multiple gods in such a way, it's for people who ACTUALLY believe god(s) to be magic sky fairies, or in polytheism's case, multiple man-looking people sitting around in a pantheon's meeting table. They're not old wizened men with beards, or beautiful women, or heroic chads.
>There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called lluvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the
offspring of his thought, and they were with him before
aught else was made. And he spoke to them, propounding
to them themes of music; and they sang before him, and he
was glad. But for a long while they sang only each alone, or
but few together, while the rest hearkened; for each
comprehended only that part of me mind of lluvatar from
which he came, and in the understanding of their brethren
they grew but slowly. Yet ever as they listened they came to
deeper understanding, and increased in unison and
harmony
>Then lluvatar spoke, and he said: 'Mighty are the Ainur, and mightiest among them is Melkor; but that he may know,
and all the Ainur, that I am lluvatar, those things that ye have
sung, I will show them forth, that ye may see what ye have
done. And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be
played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any
alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this
shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things
more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.
Unironically read Tolkien