trinity shminity

I never heard of Fiddler’s Green. Sounds like a nice enough place. Sometimes I ask people what they would like heaven to be like. Would they like marathon harp sessions, rivers of beer, endless golfing, whatever? I always thought that what I would like for heaven is for it to be like our current life only a little better, shorter winters, easier jobs, tastier pizza, that would be enough. And of course we would never grow old and we would never die.

Never die, how different the world would be if we could never die. There probably wouldn’t be any poets or philosophers, and maybe there would be all sorts of other things that would make life better.

So what if god, I assume it would be god, sat down next to you as you were enjoying a highly hopped pale ale at your local pub, and said he was in a mood, and if you wanted eternal life here on earth you could have it, but you had to decide here and now. Well I suppose most of us would take it, but you would kind of worry, what if after a billion years it became really boring or something, and there you were with all eternity before you? It would be like some kind of hell, worse probably because I think most hells end after awhile but this one would go on forever.

I think the holy spirit was just another name for plain old god, like Jehovah, or The Creator, or The Big Kahuna, and then when they had this whole thing with Jesus who was or wasn’t man or god, but I guess they thought three were better than two in the way a triangle is better than a line. Neither of us believes in any of this so I don’t know why we keep talking about it. There are some things you can learn from antiquity, but the trinity was just a pointless argument then and now.

I don’t know how you can believe in everything. Can you believe two plus two is four, and also five and six, and a billion? You know those eastern religions are more like philosophies, and they can admit to several different philosophies, but the western, the Abrahamic religions with their single god, are pretty much is you is or is you ain’t? There is one answer, one path. Either god doesn’t want you to eat meat on Friday or he does.

I’m all for ecumenical movements, I’m all for not fighting it out about the trinity. But this thing well, the Jewish god is their god, and the muslim god is their god and the catholic god is their god and the elsdon methodist church god is their god. That only works if you are an atheist and you think all those gods are figments of their imaginations.