Are many religions monotheistic

Answer 1

A:No. Over the course of time, polytheism has been more common.

The first known monotheistic religion was Zoroastrianism, the religion that became known to us through Cyrus the Great of Persia.

ancient Egypt briefly adopted a monotheistic worship of Aten, but this did not survive the reign of Akhenaten.

Judaism became monotheistic, probably in the seventh century BCE, although some scholars say that monotheism actually became the standard during the Babylonian Exile. Judaism was the forerunner of a number of later monotheistic religions, including Mandaeanism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism and Bahai.

The Greek philosophers toyed with the idea of an unidentified creator god, defining what could be regarded as a philosophical form of monotheistic deism. Monotheistic deism was revived during the Enlightenment period of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and had strong support among some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Deism lost ground with the end of the Enlightenment.