Culture has had an influence in the emergence of deities as explained by the author. The social and political stratifications of a particular culture and the hierarchy therein, that determines the powers held leads to the emergence of deities. The power is held to benefit those who approach the divinities for help. Those who are inclined toward monotheism have a culture of a single male divinity while those who are inclined toward polytheism have cultures with many divinities. This is true considering the distribution of the religious affiliations of the western and the eastern parts of the world including the Middles East.
The Hindu has monotheism that is enshrined in polytheism. They belief that there are many deities emanating from the hub and they coexist with each having a different role to play. Brahman is the hub from which the other deities manifest. This is in contrast to the Judaism that holds to a single deity without any other deities’ manifestations from the single deity.
In the world, more than often wars are caused by differences in religious beliefs. The wars have been between the monotheist adherents as the Muslims and the Christians with each group claiming absolute truth and holding the other in contempt in the face of their regions. There has been minimal was initiated by religious differences in polytheist regions of the world. Consider, for example, the political difference in Egypt and Nigeria that are both religiously afflicted and persistent to the extent that no one side seems to accept defeat. If the Hindu belief system is applied in these regions, there would peace, not only in the warring areas but also in the whole world. This is because either of these groups would be free to conceptualize a divine being and venerate the being without breaking from the main common belief system that is tethered in the hub of monotheism as is the case with Hindus.
