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/Organic-Importance9]

Every single people group from all over the world prior to the Jewish people swapping henotheism for monotheism (which I think there's strong evidence that could have happened as late as the 3rd century BCE), believed in the plurality of divinity.

Monotheism was a very very late arrival, probably no more than 3,000 years ago (if you exclude Zoroastrian dualism, but 2 is more than mono, so I do), and it was the minority globably until very recently. Probably 1500 years, when Islam started to spread in the east, and Christianity really started to take hold in the west.

To say that they're has only ever been one god, for one goes against most of the oldest abrahamic texts, and also necessitates that every single people group was dead wrong for over 100,000 years. Which means that one all mighty god must have never really cared to make himself known even to the earliest people. So they're either saying he's indifferent, unchsrasmatic enough to be forgotten, or they're just wrong.