This is political polytheism. That's what we have in the halls of Congress, polytheism.

His preference is political polytheism because according to what the people the makeup of the people

There's a bit of that that connects, yes. The one thing that I would say makes ancient polytheism different from the modern equivalent is that many of these ancient cultures were intact for centuries and developed these things over a very long time and blended ideas together, built enormous hierarchies of these ideas because they were very stable for a long time.

All of that is purely this, political polytheism.

Any form that would believe in more than one God would be polytheism. That could be two gods, three gods, 10 gods, 150 gods, a bazillion, however many. Right. It doesn't matter. It's more than one God.

But the point of the sermon is again, it's, it's, it's this commitment to political confusion, political

Okay, that's not the issue. Polytheism is the belief in more than one God. It doesn't have to be the worship of more than one God nor does polytheism. Say that I believe in more than one God and they are all of equal status.

There is no God of pantheism. So that leaves us with basically two options. There is monotheism and then polytheism. Okay, look at 1 Corinthians 8, 4 through 6. Because the early disciples of Christ were basically living in a polytheistic culture.

As a Christian, I follow God's moral law. As an American, polytheistic. Polytheistic because that space is sacred and neutral. It's neutral. I know God says, this is my servant. This is my revenger. They're supposed to be promoting what is good and punishing what is evil.

In light of the rise of monotheistic, unitarian Islam, there are those saying monotheism produces wars. We should be polytheists, where you just accept everybody else as gods. And that's how things were in the Roman world, the New Testament.

Just add Jesus into your pantheon of gods and that's fine now. Let's see What do you suppose ultimately there be? What is the ultimate outcome of a polytheistic worldview. In other words not just in terms of culture, but in terms of how you understand the world around you if you believe for example that Certain gods are at war with other gods then and that explains some of the things that you see around you then what do you wind up with a world of order or a world of chaos a world of chaos you know where maybe Certain gods don't cooperate with other ones so you might get Too much rain and not enough crops or you might wind up with Certain diseases and all these other things that can be blamed on certain gods not behaving rightly.

A multi -god system, that is a system of polytheism, of saying that there's a god of this and a god of that, and a multitude of gods to worship. Ultimately, you find some way to physically represent them, so that you can worship that physical idol.

There are no multiple gods there are no you know politism is not the existence of the divine it is politism. How do I know this for sure. And so I had to encounter these ideas at that stage when I could go and I contemplated it I realized obviously that if there is obviously more than one God then there's more than one infinite being.

They're not but all they're not. You know the Hindu gods or whatever it's that and even as a Christian we're polytheistic which oh.

Christian monotheism, and it's not. All right. I got a wonder. I mean, we were going to get here eventually, weren't we, Chris? I mean, with the emergent church, with pastors trying to top one another or themselves, or looking for something new and exciting to teach to attract people, weren't we going to get to polytheism sooner or later?

Do you think Paul believed in polytheism? Not even close. In fact, the only thing that makes sense with Paul's argument and why he argued the way he did is because he believed truly believed that there is only one God.

And unfortunately, politics is often synonymous with the word government. They're not the same thing. In biblical terms, God's government is over all things. And the polis, the city, the function of the civil magistrate, is a delegated government by God, which is a minister of God to do good and punish evil.

They're not but all they're not. You know the Hindu gods or whatever it's that and even as a Christian we're polytheistic which oh.

But my overall point here still stands. Celebrating idolatry in our political system is sinful, and God is just as displeased with it as he has been with any other form of idolatry. And just because you baptize it in conservative politics does not make it right in his eyes.

Mormons deny this. Mormonism is the most polytheistic religion ever dreamed up by man. There is an unlimited, infinite number of deities. Mormon men can become gods, and with the changes going on, who knows what will happen with that in the future.