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Article: One God. (Christian theology of monotheism)
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- Commonweal
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- March 22, 1996
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Monotheism. One survey after another confirms that most people in the United States believe in God; most of them attend "the church of their choice' often enough to count as churchgoers. The United States has more houses of worship per capita than any other country in the world, and close to 70 percent of the population prays, regularly or irregularly, as Andrew Greeley has shown.
Factoids, like these regularly make the headlines. But why? If belief in God is established so widely, why treat it as news? With believers in the majority, wouldn't one expect monotheism to be treated like any other majority phenomenon: as a matter of course and a generally credible idea? ...