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On Sat, 31 May 2025 16:37:01 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

>Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
>>On Sat, 31 May 2025 15:10:52 +1200, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On 31/05/25 04:11, Paul S Person wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 30 May 2025 09:00:32 +1000, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>snip
>>>>>
>>>>> Most atheists are more focused on reality than fantasies.
>>>>=3D20
>>>> A reality which, in their belief, includes no gods. Or, more =
commonly,
>>>> excludes /one/ God, because as good members of a traditionally
>>>> Christian culture, they only know of one God to not believe in.
>>>>=3D20
>>>
>>>What is this "one God" nonsense? Are you of Jewish Faith?
>>>Didn't we nail a third of the three Christian Gods to a tree?
>>>Or am I confusing that with some Speculative written fantasy Fiction
>>>that I have read? Back on topic. (Might have been the authorised KVJ
>>>version or perhaps a bootleg by Kilgore Trout.)
>>
>>=3D46unny as that is, just in case, let me remind you that it is "One =
God
>>in Three Persons".
>
>Even in christianity, the question has been are the three one,
>or is the one three?   [Pointlessly silly] wars were fought over that
>simple question.

As I noted in another post, heresies abound here. Either neither or
both are correct depending on how "person" is understood.

>Of course, that's assuming one accepts the dogma.

The /best/ way here (IMHO, of course) is to accept the dogma, logic
problem and all. The Apostle Paul did, after all, say that the Gospel
was "nonsense to the Greeks" -- so expecting the core dogmas to "make
sense" is pointless. This is why Christianity is called a /faith/,
which that same Paul defines as "hope in things unseen".=20
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"