The story of the suppression of polytheistic religions in the ancient world by the ever more powerful monotheistic religions is revisited in this groundbreaking comparative study of world religions. Defending the thesis that religious terrorism is neither exclusive to an individual faith nor a side-effect of the times, this book studies the way in which the belief in one true God is inherently intolerant of other ways of viewing the world, and bases its existance in the suppression of any alternative perspective on the divine.