Polytheism

Polytheism does not give man any feeling of real relationship with his gods except that he imagines them to be all-controlling agencies having the power to bestow happiness or inflict pain, provided they are appropriately worshipped. But as such they do not offer any moral guidance, thus encouraging idolators to invent their own code of morality and plan a way of life based on pure expediency and opportunism. Polytheism does not provide an independent and lasting basis for the arts, sciences, philosophy, literature, politics and economics. Throughout the ages polytheism has been reinforcing atheism.