# Apologetics against polytheism

[Socrates' Euthyphro](https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/euthyfro.html) gives a clear refutation of polytheism:

1. Good things are what the gods want.
2. However, the gods themselves want opposing things (e.g., the god of war wants [war](https://gainedin.site/war/), but the god of peace wants [peace](https://gainedin.site/boundaries/)).
3. Either there are no good things (since a god is satisfied in either case), or one of the gods isn't really as important as the other.
4. At the end of this, there must be one god above all other gods, an "unknown God" above all others.

This set of ideas was partly the basis for why Socrates was put to death, and also the precedent for the Areopagus in Acts 17:19-34.