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z316pz53s7x	Christopher Haw	Monotheism and the Paradox of Intolerance: The Refusal to Divinize Victims and the Mosaic Distinction	1904		.txt	text/plain	211	7	23	Discussions of monotheism's political consequences often emphasize either its intolerance of other gods and religions as a source of bigotry and conflict, on the one hand, or emphasize monotheism as a source of pacific, universalistic, transcendent tolerance on the other. I argue that monotheism's intolerance opens up historic potentials that are both enlightening and dangerous: it dissolved the ancient link between God and the political sphere, helped us see past the distortions of divinized politics, and deepened concern for the victims of politics—while it nonetheless makes possible a uniquely absolutist, violence.	cache/z316pz53s7x.txt	txt/z316pz53s7x.txt