Humanism

Secular Humanism and Philosophical Materialism

How many Gods? Or Why I am a Humanist

Over 2,500 Deities of the World

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Using only Homo sapiens, we can estimate of 63,000 religious groups throughout human history. Some give very rough estimate of an approximately of N = 28,000,000 of possible gods. If religion range from one to a 1000 gods this would give us 440 deities per religion. Atheist Web site

As you can see there is no way to even to know for sure.

Animism is the capability of having a divine personality to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena. Everything named or unnamed has its own spiritual essence.

Deism is the belief in the existence of a supreme being who does not interfere in day-to-day operations of the universe.

Pantheism the universe or nature is god. Richard Dawkins, in his book The God Delusion, has described Pantheism as “sexed-up atheism,” by adding an all encompassing, rousing, expressive and respectful affection about our lives on this planet, our place in the human family, Nature and all its life forms and the wider Universe, as an expression of reverent awe.

Panentheism God is the Universe; the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Hegel 'definitions of the Absolute because the existence of an objective world is absolute making God far greater than the universe which part of God which interpenetrate and defines it.

Henotheism we worship only one god though there are many.

Monotheism there is only one God.

Atheism and agnosticism overlap. Atheism need not be, believing in the non-existence of God or gods, but the divine plays no part in your life. Any and all of the above may be true or false though many seem mutually exclusive. None seem more likely than the rest. Then the question for an atheist is the question about god’s existence is irrelevant to how I live my life. Belief becomes a personal choice, so there is no reason choose a belief other than it makes you feel good and no god doctrine of Humanism or Philosophical materialism can be very pleasing.  I do good things because it is good to do good and bad to do badly. Imagination and empathy leads to compassion. Not reward or heaven, punishment or hell. No god has a right to tell me to harm another.