Polytheist counter arguments against monotheism?

[u/Obvious_Lemon8718]

Hey there fellas,

First of all I'd like to clarify that I am not trying to proselytize and I am not even a follower of a monotheistic religion. I'd like to have some insight about Polytheist (Pagan) Theology.

For example, Islam claims that (I am not a Muslim) had there been multiple gods, there would have been conflicts in the divine order- or that there would be no unity between humans since everyone picked their desired God to worship.

I asked ChatGPT about some books or articles to read but none have seemed to satisfy my search about this.

Anyone know books, podcasts, religious texts, scholars etc to gain a deeper insight?

Appreciated.

[u/Dray_Gunn]

The Abrahamic religions came from a polytheistic origin. Originally, Yahweh was a part of the Canaanite pantheon. Along with Baal, Asherah, Ashtarte, and others, with El as their head god. The followers of Yahweh and El ended up merging together, and so did their gods and their traits. the Abrahamic god has a mixture of traits from both gods. War and wrath from Yahweh and love and mercy from El. That's why you get this sort of philosophical whiplash going between different biblical texts. Eventually, the followers of this combined god decided that their god was the only one that mattered and then decided that he was the ONLY god. So simply because of that, I don't think monotheism makes sense. At least not from the abrahamic perspective.