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EUROPEANS DIDN’T INVENT MONOTHEISM!

CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF HEBREWS, CHRISTIANS, AND MUSLIMS DIDN’T INVENT THE IDEA OF ONE GOD!

1. The word monotheism comes from the Greek μόνος (monos),meaning “single” and θεός(theos)meaning “god”

2. In Zoroastrianism, Ahura Mazda appears as a supreme and transcendental deity

3. Ethical monotheism and the associated concept of absolute good and evil emerge in Zoroastrianism and Judaism, later culminating in the doctrines of Christology in early Christianity and later (by the 7th century) in the tawhid in Islam

4. Abrahamic religions are monotheistic faiths of West Asians origin, emphasizing and tracing their origins to Abraham or recognizing a spiritual tradition identified with him. As of the early twenty-first century, the majority of the world’s population (54% or 3.8 billion people) consider themselves as monotheists and adherents of the Abrahamic religions

5. While all adherents of the Abrahamic religions consider themselves to be monotheists, Judaism considers Christianity to be polytheistic,recognizing only Islam as monotheistic.Islam likewise does not recognize Christianity as monotheistic

6. The orthodox faith system held by most dynasties of China since at least the Shang Dynasty (1766 BCE) until the modern period centered on the worship of Shangdi (literally “Above Sovereign”, generally translated as “God”) or Heaven as an omnipotent force

7. The Himba people of Namibia practice a form of monotheistic panentheism, and worship the god Mukuru. The deceased ancestors of the Himba and Herero are subservient to him, acting as intermediaries.

8. The Igbo people practice a form of monotheism called Odinani.Odinani has monotheistic and panentheistic attributes, having a single God as the source of all things. Although a pantheon of spirits exists, these are lesser spirits prevalent in Odinani expressly serving as elements of Chineke (or Chukwu), the supreme being or high god.

9. Oromo people follow a traditional monotheistic religion called Waaqeffannaa and God called Waaq.

10. In the Proto-Indo-European religion, the supreme god is Dyeus, as the word “Dyeus” is literally used in many Indo-European language cognates to denote a supreme god. However, Proto-Indo-European religion was not monotheistic.

11. In western Eurasia, the ancient traditions of the Slavic religion had elements of monotheism, of a supreme deity known by many names worshiped by some tribes. The most common name of the supreme deity is Perun and was identified with the Christian God after Christianization

12. Sikhi is a monotheistic and a revealed religion.God in Sikhi is called Vāhigurū, and is shapeless, timeless, and sightless: niraṅkār, akaal, andalakh. God is present (sarav viāpak) in all of creation. God must be seen from “the inward eye”, or the “heart”.

13. Tengrism or Tangrism (sometimes stylized as Tengriism), occasionally referred to as Tengrianism , is a modern term for a Central Asian religion characterized by features of shamanism, animism, totemism, both polytheism and monotheism,and ancestor worship.

14. The works of African scholars for the past three decades have established the fact that Africans have a concept of an universal God and the Creator (Idowu, 1962; Mbiti, 1975). Most Africans are in agreement that the traditional Africans do not actively worship this Supreme Being

15. Native Americans also believed in a Supreme God also. Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me.” – Sitting Bull, 1889

16. The Akan believe in a Supreme Creator who takes on various names depending upon the region of worship

17. Vodouists believe in a distant and unknowable Supreme Creator, Bondye (derived from the French term Bon Dieu, meaning “good God”).

18. EUROPEANS AND ASIANS HAVE TRICKED YOU INTO BELIEVING  EVERYONE WAS DOING WITCHCRAFT!

19. AFRICANS BELIEVE IN MANY GODS! DOESN’T EVEN MAKE SENSE IN ENGLISH. CHRISTIANS BELIEVE IN JESUS,GOD AND THE HOLY GHOST. THE GOD OF THE UNDER WORLD. AND DEITIES CALLED DEMONS AND ANGELS???

— Walter C. Rucker Jr. (2010). Igbo. In: Encyclopedia of African American History. ABC-CLIO. p. 53.

Awka (African) Metallurgy in America

The acknowledgment of the contribution of enslaved Igbo people in the United States recurrently includes their influence on blacksmithing that’s largely associated with the ancient blacksmithing town of Awka. Northern Igbo areas, including Awka, were especially the worst affected by slave raiding attacks by other Igbo towns. Blacksmithing, and particularly iron, held significant spiritual value among Igbo groups. Some suggest Awka blacksmiths were the makers of the ‘Igbo Ukwu’ leaded-bronzes noted for being more advanced than most metal workmanship around the world in the 9th century, and the Lower Niger Bronze Industry. Iron smelting in the region dates back to at least 2000 BC.