Chhatrapati
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You might as well as say Socrates was Christian. Do you even read anything what I said? He is a believer of Apollo so much that he believed the Oracle of Apollo when he said Socrates is the wisest man among men. Then you come here and says Socrates was against idolatry and he believed in one god. You abrahamics and your constant need to claim others history. Socrates was as much of a Pagan believer as other Athenians he was simply a seeker who wants the how, what and why? One could even argue he was Agnostic but that's entirely another discussion.Pay attention - "Socrates had criticized the anthropomorphism of traditional Greek religion, and moreover he was seemingly believing in a daimonion- an inner voice linked to a deity.[60]"
They wrongly accused him of worshiping other gods, but they rightly accused him of rejecting the state religion. He was sentenced to death because he rejected idolatry of the deities [anthropomorphism] as he believed in the unseen Deity [daimonian].
Yeah, Monotheists aren't new. We have been around since the parents of the modern human species. Look at the cave paintings from over 30,000 years ago. No portrayal of deities.
More about his account - "Socrates did not document his teachings. All we know of him comes from the accounts of others: mainly the philosopher Plato and the historian Xenophon, who were both his pupils; the Athenian comic dramatist Aristophanes (Socrates's contemporary); and Plato's pupil Aristotle, who was born after Socrates's death. The often contradictory stories from these ancient accounts only serve to complicate scholars' ability to reconstruct Socrates's true thoughts reliably, a predicament known as the Socratic problem.[2] The works of Plato, Xenophon, and other authors who use the character of Socrates as an investigative tool, are written in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and his interlocutors and provide the main source of information on Socrates's life and thought. Socratic dialogues (logos sokratikos) was a term coined by Aristotle to describe this newly formed literary genre.[3] While the exact dates of their composition are unknown, it is believed that many were written after Socrates's death.[4] As Aristotle first noted, the extent to which the dialogues portray Socrates authentically is a matter of some debate.[5]"
PS: You are contradicting in your own words, if he didn't worship Athenian gods and he was accused of worshipping other gods, that simply means he didn't believe in one true god but different ones. Which isn't Monotheistic. Get a grip and read your own words.