How many gods are there?
Well that depends who you ask – for example:
- Monotheistic Religions – such as Christianity, Islam, and Judaism believe in one God.
- Polytheistic Religions – both ancient and some modern religion (including Hinduism, ancient Greek, Roman Egyptian and Norse religions) had / have multiple gods.
- Philosophical / Atheistic Views – some philosophies and atheistic world views reject the existence of any gods at all.
Certainly if you were to add up the total of all gods people believe in (and no longer believe in) it would run into thousands.
Some people believe (or believed) there are many gods – some just one. A person who believes in one god will typically disbelieve someone who worships another god – claiming their god is the one ‘true’ god. And vice versa – logically they cannot both be right – but they can both be wrong!
A humanist accepts there is no actual evidence for any gods or goddesses – they were invented to explain the world around them until and it has been said that the reality may actually be “man made god not god made man”.