The Story of God

And the Long Journey from Polytheism to Satanic Verses

Contrary to what the title seems to imply, this article isn’t about gods in general, for there are too many for one article or even one book. There are as many gods as there are civilizations and most of them share little overlap with their counterparts, other than being god, of course. This is about one specific subset of that unwieldy assortment—the A…