All about the Trinity. The claim is that God is three in one and yet indivisible, so if His Holy Spirit can be independent, how does that work? When Jesus walked the earth was God in heaven, etc? If God was on earth in the form of Jesus then clearly He is not needed to control Creation.
I agree with, or accept the general themes of your post, religion is a powerful influence of the human psyche and that's why it interests me also, so it has to be understood as best as one can. We give it tax breaks and all sorts of concessions. We accept behaviour and beliefs from religion that would never fly in the real world. I mean the whole system of belief is pure imagination because nothing is tangible about religion, or can be proven empirically.
That's not to say that there is not some deeper, unknowable, unreachable truth here. Some absolute abstraction that gets diluted down to all sorts of nonsense that we catch glimpses of.
As for 2000 year old religion, well yes, religion is both written for the relevance of its age, the capacity and need of the audience and it also carries certain eternal truths that it hands to the next religion, but we can only know what we know. Religion appears to turn over completely about every 1000 years. Some religion in the age of Adam, then Abraham, then Noah, then Moses,Jesus, then Muhammad and I suspect Baha'u'llah is the real deal as well. All about 1000 years apart.
As for the Trinity, why I'm not as tolerant with this belief as others is because it casts all other religions into the bin. I mean when your Prophet is God the rest become chopped liver and it gave Christians carte blanche to trample other beliefs under foot and they sure did.
To me the Trinity as a literal belief is just as bad as the Jehovah Witness daring to claim they are the only true religion. Basically the Trinity belief renders all others religions as false and Christianity as a single perpetual truth, regardless of how much it falls apart into tens-of-thousands of splinter groups and the fundamental stupidity of the teachings that have arisen.
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