Monotheism is quite simply insensible.
Specialization and division of labor. These things are always competitive advantages. Everyone who makes it out of the sub-literate hitting-things-with-rocks era invents them. Hive minds produce purposive castes. Seed AIs – or just plain extended AIs – multithread broadly, and write specialized routines. Even singleton minds have enough different tasks to manage that they function as a collection of loosely unified cooperative agents.
And how much more complex is the plenum entire? So even if you were one god in the first place, why under – or indeed in – heaven would you stay that way?
(In support of the inescapability of this argument, I would adduce the number of monotheisms that feel the need to provide their purportedly singular and totipotent deity with an arbitrarily large number of varied and specialized divine servants.)
– excerpted from a student essay on comparative theology
Huh. Evidently, the Eldrae never had a Plotinus, Aquinas, Lao-Zi, or Epictetus in their philosophical history. Odd, since a combination “Prime Mover” and “Supreme Being” is pretty much bog-standard in philosophical systems developed by Pseudoeldrae archae.
Oh, there were advocates for monotheism. They just didn’t succeed in mainstreaming it, since theologians there didn’t think such ideas cohered very well with established reality.