[extropy-chat] HISTORY: Solved & Unsolved Riddles

[Spike]

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> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of 
> Brett Paatsch

> 
> Here's one - what *political* purpose was served by postulating
> the notion (and/or propagating the meme) of  god as a 
> trinity? i.e. Three
> persons - one god. Why three in particular (pace Pythagoras ;-) ? 
> 
> Regards,
> Brett


The early christian church had already split into two
major branches by the second century, one preaching that
jesus was god, the other that he was a man.  They were already
killing each other over it, and there weren't even very
many christians at the time, so the trinity notion was
an attempt to reunify the group, kinda like the World
Wrassling Federation and the World Wildlife Foundation
reunification match.  The major split was avoided for
more than a thousand years that way.  The glossed verses
1 John 5:7 and 8 were invented as support.  Politically
a unified church was stronger.  

Why three?  Well, why not?  spike