Holy Trinity
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The Holy Trinity is the compromise some Christian faiths hold between monotheism and polytheism. They describe their God as being three components of the same entity (similar to the three leaves of a clover), the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
This seems confusing to some; fortunately the Catholic Encyclopedia provides a simple and concise meaning:
“THE DOGMA OF THE TRINITY: The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion-the truth that in the unity of the godhead there are Three persons, the Father, the son, and the Holy Spirit, these Three persons being truly distinct from one another.”[1]
Even when their single God is actually a triumvirate, the fact remains that none of the deities are female, as the Holy Spirit is genderless. Apparently, God is not an Equal Opportunity deity.
The Christian Church has a historical reputation of institutionalised misogyny, most likely due to the culture and society in which the Abrahamic religions were first invented.
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[edit] What's logical
The basic idea of God being one and three simultaneously is reasonable. The terms being or entity are loosely defined. For example a Portuguese Man o' War is commonly regarded as a single organism although it is actually a colony of separate organisms, albeit they have evolved to become dependent on each other. Whether this also applies to the Holy Trinity has yet to be discussed by the Vatican.
[edit] What's illogical
Christians go on to suggest that God is completely one and undivided. The three parts of the Godhead are according to Christians simultaneously completely separate individuals. The part is in the whole and the whole is in each of the parts. This does not appear to make sense. That just shows the imperfection of mere human reason. Humans should not question the Divine Godhead. We should merely adore.
[edit] Further reasoning
If human logic is so seriously flawed that blatant contradictions can be true simultaneously then human reason cannot in principle prove the existence of God either. This leads to the agnosticism of Thomas Huxley.
