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    It is not the case that A collection of non-identical divine beings, however necessarily unified in will or substance, satisfies the functional definition of polytheism that matters for religious ontology.

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    • 1.Polytheism fundamentally requires independent divine agents with genuinely separate wills; necessary unity collapses this into disguised monotheism.
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    • 2.Religious practitioners in polytheistic traditions historically distinguish gods by autonomous power and conflicting interests, unlike unified divine collections.
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    • 3.Functional definitions risk circularity: redefining polytheism to fit unified beings abandons what makes polytheism categorically distinct.
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    • 1.Religious practice and worship distinguish divine beings by addressing distinct persons, implying functional polytheism regardless of metaphysical unity.
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    • 2.Theological distinctness (separate identities, roles, attributes) is what matters ontologically for polytheism, not substrate-level unity.
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    • 3.Many monotheists accept trinitarian frameworks that treat three distinct persons as one God, suggesting functional multiplicity can coexist with monotheism.
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