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Theodorus P. van Baaren
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Professor of Science of Religions, State University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Author of Menschen wie wir and others.

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Michelangelo's fresco The Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel shows God reaching out to touch Adam's outstretched hand, with angels surrounding God on the right.
Monotheism, belief in the existence of one god, or in the oneness of God. As such, it is distinguished from polytheism, the belief in the existence of many gods, from atheism, the belief that there is no god, and from agnosticism, the belief that the existence or nonexistence of a god or of gods is…
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