{"id":4767,"date":"2013-06-15T21:54:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T01:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=4767"},"modified":"2013-06-15T21:58:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T01:58:44","slug":"st-patricks-bad-analogies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/st-patricks-bad-analogies\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Patrick&#8217;s bad analogies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/KQLfgaUoQCw?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Quite funny! This fellow has real comedic talent.<\/p>\n<p>It is remarkable, when you step back to consider it, that this video is by a trinitarian. It&#8217;s <strong>main point<\/strong> is: no one really knows what these traditional words mean (those of the <a title=\"Athanasian Creed post\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/50\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Athanasian&#8221; Creed<\/a>); we just say them. Trying to understand those words is futile.<\/p>\n<p>A striking amount of trust, for a Protestant, in an anonymous 5th century writer, and in the nameless Roman Catholics who made it authoritative in the medieval centuries. (The author is a Lutheran.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hypnotist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4770\" style=\"border: 11px solid white;\" alt=\"hypnotist\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hypnotist-300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hypnotist-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hypnotist-420x252.jpg 420w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hypnotist.jpg 460w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hypnotist-90x54.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>What is this stance?<\/strong> That is, what move is the author really making, and commending to us?<\/p>\n<p>Indeterminate.<\/p>\n<p>It could be <a title=\"negative mysterianism\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/1246\" target=\"_blank\">negative mysterianism<\/a>. Could be <a title=\"restraint\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/369\" target=\"_blank\">restraint<\/a>. Could be <a title=\"redirection\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/367\" target=\"_blank\">redirection<\/a>. (Listen TO&#8230; THE&#8230; WORDS&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite funny! This fellow has real comedic talent. It is remarkable, when you step back to consider it, that this video is by a trinitarian. It&#8217;s main point is: no one really knows what these traditional words mean (those of the &#8220;Athanasian&#8221; Creed); we just say them. Trying to understand those words is futile. A&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/st-patricks-bad-analogies\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St. Patrick&#8217;s bad analogies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,14,44,8,20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-complaints","category-heresy-orthodoxy","category-history","category-humor","category-linkage","category-mystery","category-theories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4779,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767\/revisions\/4779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}