They follow, so far as modern circumstances permit, the ancient ritual and are apparent polytheists while accepting pantheism as the higher truth.
Polytheists applied the term "atheistical" alike to them [885] and the Jews.
According to lviii, 28, however, some polytheistsdenied the future state.
But this concerneth not those Polytheists with whom ye are in league, and who shall have afterwards in no way failed you, nor aided anyone against you.
The idolaters called their deities Gods, but as Polytheists were unused to the singular Allah, God.
By their lofty claim of superior sanctity the Jews might provoke the Polytheists to consider them as an odious and impure race.
The zeal and rapid progress of the Christians awakened the Polytheists from their supine indifference in the cause of those deities, whom custom and education had taught them to revere.
S: Surely those who disbelieve from among the followers of the Book and the polytheists shall be in the fire of hell, abiding therein; they are the worst of men.
S: He it is Who sent His Messenger with the guidance and the true religion, that He may make it overcome the religions, all of them, though the polytheists may be averse.
S: He it is Who sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, that He might cause it to prevail over all religions, though the polytheists may be averse.
As a rule, the gods of polytheistsare such that, even under the delusion that they are gods, little improving communion with them is possible.
In these several respects the office was identified with the existing institutions of the country, and it was perhaps indeed modelled upon that of the high priest among the polytheists and the Jews.
The old cult was not extinguished, but irremediably disabled; it lurked even in the highest places, and we hear of a queen of Armenia who encouraged the polytheists to assassinate Verthanes, the son and successor of St. Gregory.
The apostle of Christianity might justifiably speak to polytheists of the God 'whom ye ignorantly worship.
In their writings we have the reflections of polytheists upon the actions and attributes of the gods.
Doubtless, this is due in part to the fact that the idea of God was so imperfectly disclosed to the polytheists of Mexico and Greece.
Since the worship of Jupiter and his family has expired, the vacant title of pagans has been successively applied to all the idolaters and polytheists of the old and new world.
Those who held that "the people of the Book" ought only to be made tributaries, while all other idolaters and polytheists should be compelled either to perish or to embrace Islam, interpret the word technically to mean the religion of Islam.
But this concerneth not those Polytheists with whom ye are in league, and who have afterwards in no way failed you, and not yet aided any one against you.
Those legists who held that thepolytheists and idolaters may either be fought against or be submitted to the authority of Islam by being tributaries, took the word in its proper sense of submission.
It is He who hath sent His messenger with the direction and the religion of truth, that He may exalt above every religion, though the polytheists be loth thereto.
The polytheists were confounded by the simple idea of a solitary and invisible God; the pride of the Christians and Jews disdained the yoke of a mortal and contemporary legislator.
The heathen polytheists are therefore justly condemned in Scripture, and pronounced to be "inexcusable.
To any one who considers justly of the matter, it will appear that the gods of the polytheists are no better than the elves and fairies of our ancestors, and merit as little as any pious worship and veneration.
While one must agree with Hume, then, it is, nevertheless, to be wished that he had not set the bad example of calling polytheists "superstitious atheists.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polytheists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
