Re: The joy of Atheism

On 05/11/2024 20:24, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 02:38:57 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

On 5 Nov 2024 01:05:16 GMT, rbowman wrote:
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Belloc wasn't far off. He also warned in 'The Great Heresies' that
Islam, a Christian heresy was only slumbering and shouldn't be written
off as a threat.

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This planet ain’t big enough for two religions which both believe their
sky fairy is the only true sky fairy, all other sky fairies are
heretical falsehoods to be stamped out?

 Same sky fairy in this case. It's in the details. Most Christian
variations are trinitarian. I'll let someone else argue about the Mormons
and a couple of other minor sects. A triune god is hard to wrap your head
around. I think many Christians would fall into one of the classic
heresies trying to explain it in their own words. Mohamed knew his
audience and dumbed it down to one god. Jesus and Mary get an honorable
mention.
 

What you call trinitarian does not relate to the God. Well not exactly.
It is part of Jewish mysticism.
And is related to numerology.
A crude explanation is that in order to have an observable world, you need three things, a world, an observer, and the resultant  observation..
Or God the Father, the Holy Spirit, and God the Son.
Today we might call those three things quantum reality, consciousness, and the material world as we understand it.
The Jewish idea of a god is more a divine and supernatural principle, at least as far as the mystics went.
Not something you prayed to.
They didn't have our sophistication of language, but they weren't stupid either. Science is a descendant of their thinking
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