tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post494475167588714466..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: The Fourth Person of the TrinityAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-66368322127848918692021-06-11T07:04:03.332-04:002021-06-11T07:04:03.332-04:00Mother Teresa said that the faces of the poor are ...Mother Teresa said that the faces of the poor are the face of Christ, thus inadvertently deifying the poor. When I tell people that they've made a little green god out of the poor, the marginalized, etc., they will furiously deny it. But I know; I've seen it.G. Poulinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18293368745484671254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-84418515644710035332021-06-02T09:04:21.605-04:002021-06-02T09:04:21.605-04:00I almost lost it when I reached the part about &qu...I almost lost it when I reached the part about "Shut up. I'm talking to your mother".<br />And, I am a Catholic.<br />True, many deify people or objects. Not only in Catholicism, but Protestants, too. And, the Woke deify People of Color (whom they nonetheless presume to order around, and correct when they stray from the Holy Official Leftist Message).Linda Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15024201252345608291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-75336012503269772612021-06-02T03:09:50.458-04:002021-06-02T03:09:50.458-04:00I think the bottom line is that a 'he' or ...I think the bottom line is that a 'he' or 'she' without the other is sterile, therefore cannot grow. I also wonder what the relationship between sterility and purity is. Neither seems to me to be productive.Donna B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16771075314473811594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-54375056168146168332021-06-01T23:06:39.178-04:002021-06-01T23:06:39.178-04:00There's a very strong connection between Mary ...There's a very strong connection between Mary and the Holy Spirit (obviously), but it's kind of edgy to get too overt about their Identity, or even to bring it up in certain Proddy circles. Kind of a tacit or inchoate feminine incarnation. Perhaps that's perfectly in keeping with the feminine nature. The more I ponder it, the more I like it.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10245302282566974627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-42301782388978726512021-06-01T22:57:49.957-04:002021-06-01T22:57:49.957-04:00Related tangentially, but I think you'll find ...Related tangentially, but I think you'll find it interesting. <br /><br />Once I read an article by a retiring professor of history, who related how he had given a quiz to all the many years of incoming freshmen students he'd had. He asked them to name important figures from the American revolution. Unsurprisingly, George Washington was nearly always named. Very surprisingly, however, so was Betsy Ross. Her name came up strongly in every generation, over and over.<br /><br />It surprised him so much that he went back through the primary and secondary school curricula to find out why such emphasis had been given to her. In fact, he discovered that she was only mentioned in the primary schools, and very early in the education of the young students. They wouldn't have heard her name for years and years in school, but they frequently cited her as one of the central figures of the revolution.<br /><br />He came to the conclusion that this was less about her, or about the curricula, than about a basic psychological function in the human mind. George Washington was the Father of His Country -- and Betsy Ross, they had understood as children, was the Mother. And thus they were the two most important people to the American family, <i>ex officio</i>. <br /><br />It may be that religions run into this too. God the Father, Jesus the Son, the Holy Spirit that unites them... that's all well and good, but for a human being there <i>needs</i> to be a mother. It doesn't make sense without one. <br /><br />Well, the Trinity doesn't make sense anyway without a great deal of philosophical study. Sometimes not even then; Maimonides thought Christians were just incoherent for believing in it. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-57567436671375080542021-06-01T19:28:05.578-04:002021-06-01T19:28:05.578-04:00For some denominations/congregations, perhaps ethn...For some denominations/congregations, perhaps ethnicity holds that place. Saint Nicholas II? Some mideast religious groups have no members outside their tribe.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-39113645024617122412021-06-01T18:09:04.257-04:002021-06-01T18:09:04.257-04:00'play stupid games, win stupid prizes' is ...'play stupid games, win stupid prizes' is the expression that pops into my head. Any component of reality can be bastardized and distorted, it's what that guy does (you know, the one who roams the earth, walking to and fro all the time).<br />The Orthodox claim 'right belief', that's what the word means, but we all know the map is not the territory, and any of us can (and do) have imperfect grasp of perfect truth. I'm not carrying water or cards from any denomination. Got Baptist roots, hippie bonafides, new age scars, Buddhist sympathies, Catholic affinities and Orthodox sensibilities. 1+1+1 = 3 not 4, regardless of persuasion. I recommend someone like Gregory of Nazianzus for accounting of trinitarian concepts. The Orthodox call Mary 'Theotokis' = Mother of God, but they don't intend her as a 4th. Wrapping our heads around these things is not a matter for opinionated dispute, but for careful and quiet contemplation, intended to escape the horizontal limits of logic and reason. If i had to play the game, I'd say the 4th is you, or me or Nicodemus, or any one of us. As has been said, if you meet buddha#4 on the road, kill him. Just my humble heterodoxy.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10245302282566974627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-70024418877862329002021-06-01T16:44:43.706-04:002021-06-01T16:44:43.706-04:00Off the top of my head after reading this, I'd...Off the top of my head after reading this, I'd pick the Apostle Paul for a prime contender.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.com