re: #388 Occasional Reader

Your counter-argument supposes that a “polytheistic” religion by definition posits multiple gods who are equals. And that is not the case. For instance, the ancient Greek “polytheistic” pantheon quite clearly had Zeus as il capo de tutti capi.

The concept of a pantheon of gods subject to a boss god is known as henotheism. It’s a midpoint on the evolution from polytheism, where all gods are equal, to monotheism, where the boss god has absorbed all the other gods inside itself.