When I was in college an instructor explaned to me that everybody lives there lives on a line graph and on this line graph '0' is the point that a person accepts the realiety that JESUS CHRIST gave HIS life for them. On this graph a person is supposed to mature in there faith and this maturity would mean that the persons spiritual life would be represented by a higher number.
As I have already alluded to, I think that theism would 1 or 2 steps away from accepting JESUS CHRIST as LORD. So on the graph I would place a theist on -1 or -2. I would assign a polytheist maby a -4 and so on. The only absolute that the graph has is that if you have not accepted JESUS CHRIST as the LORD of your life then all of thoes people are on one side of the graph, and all of the people that have truely accepted JESUS as there LORD would be on the other side.
Although I would like every person that I come in contact with to move to 0 and then grow. I realize that that is not going to hapen. Maby you are at a -50, well I invite you to understand that JESUS is the LORD that rules over all...but maby I am going to be that person that convinces you to move from -50 to -49.