Trinity? (was Re: The Supreme Sacrifice)

Joseph Crea Joseph.Crea@worldnet.att.net
Sun, 8 Feb 1998 20:19:43 +0000 (00886990783, 19980208201942.AAA10473@LOCALNAME)


Hello, Michael!

At 09:34 AM 2/8/98 -0800, Michael W. Fisher wrote:

FISHER

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> Then some clever bishop somewhere came up with the trinity double talk. The
>Jews were not then and are not now fooled, and neither is anyone else, but
>Christians trained from childhood to accept pretzel reasoning (circular
>reasoning with a few extra twists) could swallow the double talk easily and
>believe that they were in fact still mono-theists, and thus could keep their
>mythology (of a Jewish messiah) and theology (we still worship Yahweh!) intact.
>
> In fact, the trinity doctrine is nothing but inchoate nonsense which only a
>Christian can pretend to accept and is always in the end described as "a
>mystery"; i.e., it doesn't make any sense, it can't be explained, so just shut
>up and turn up the credulity on your indoctrination amplifier.
CREA Then I take that you are acquainted with David Brown's philosophical defense of the doctrine against the charge of incoherence, __The Divine Trinity__ (Open Court, 1985, ISBN 0-87548-439-5)? With Mettaa, Joseph Crea <Joseph.Crea@worldnet.att.net>