Choosing One Over Many: Building a Monotheistic Religion

Casparata broke down building religions into two articles within the same issue. The first is "Choosing One Over Many: Building a Monotheistic Religion." This article is immediatly followed by "Choosing Many Over One: Building a Polythestic Religion."

The article briefly goes over monotheism, and some different real-world faiths that follow it. The next to sections are title The One Truth, which touches on the concept of universal truth, and Equality as a core concept.

Some prompts given at the end of the article: "Once you've built a foundation for your religion, make sure to shake it up and create some potential conflict (and if your world has real gods, look for ways to circumvent the idea of a Single Truth):"
 * "Create a schism: people might share the same god, but the dogma is different enough to create conflict"
 * "Have a broad variety of sects compete for the faithful"
 * "Make your religion henotheistic: the faithful worship a single god, but don't deny the possible existence of others"
 * "There's one all-powerful entity behind it all, but it is worshipped in many different ways"
 * "Have powerful beings that may look like gods to puny humans, but really aren't – this way, you can easily include divine magic while maintaining a universal truth, for example with a forgotten 'real' creator"