English to Serbian Social Sciences Religion monotheism and nationalism

There are inclusive forms of monotheism (“all gods are One”),
but today’s major monotheisms are all of exclusive type (“no
god but the One”). This is true of Islam: “no god but God”
are the very first words of the most basic Islamic profession of
faith. It is also true of Judaism: “you shall have no other god
besides me” is the key prohibition of the very first of the Ten
Commandments (Exod 20:3).

Christianity is no different: “no
God but One,” wrote the first Christian theologian, the apostle
Paul, repeating in his own way the Jewish commitment to God’s
unicity (1 Cor 8:4). Monotheism’s exclusivism is the necessary
obverse of its universalism. The singular and the universal are
identical: the one God is the God of everything that is not God.