monotheism

It is the strange fate of monotheism to claim to know the truth. The truth about the meaning of life, the universe, the right way to marry, the right person to marry, how many children one should have, who one should or should not have sex with and when, who should govern a country, and what not. Maybe it also wants to tell me how many cookies I can eat.

Monotheistic religion has this claim because if there is only one God, then there is only one way to do things. Mine. Because on top of claiming that there is only one God, the monotheistic religions also claim that they (the various priests or rabbis or gurus or imams) know exactly what this one God wants. God, you see, has talked to them or their ancestors or some prophet who then proceeded to write down or tell the world what God has told him (or her for we have to remain politically correct even though God rarely involves women in this kind of scheme. If He appears to women to tell them such things, they generally shut up about it which is a much wiser course. Women have traditionally been content with a simple advice on a small issue involving children).