Many Gods

I sat next to my parents at a nice southern protestant church service for the first time in about 35 years. It seems an innocuous event, but it got me to feeling and thinking. The Holy Trinity is a central tenet of current christian doctrine. It was a compromise, worked out in the early Catholic organization, committed to paper and justified by christian philosophers since that time. I believe people who think and feel for themselves have subtle and glaring differences in their perceptions of the nature of God. The concept of the Trinity is an enduring reflection of the confusion created when people try to reconcile these natural differences of perception. Below are some of my perceptions. Some of them are my current and past beliefs. Some are my perception of other people's beliefs.

The Father: Big Guy looking down from above; observing the subjects he created, pushing them around from time to time, laying down rules, and judging His objects accordingly. He allows his subjects a certain amount of free will on their path. He's got a cool place for them to go after they die if they just work hard enough to please Him. Then there's a not so cool place they go if He isn't pleased. He listens to direct requests and appeals to His vanity, which are the highest form of meditation available to His objects according to His plan. He laid all this stuff out in Holy Books, via his messengers and organizations.

The Son: Righteous human, a strong and magical man. Man of many words edited down by the Father's organization into a handy book of directives. Was tortured and killed as a martyr for the sake of all the Father's favorite created objects. He spoke a great deal of love, but his directives on the meaning of the force and practice of it are very sparse in the Bible. He did say that the most important rules to follow are to love others as you love yourself, and that the greatest act of love is to convince a person to accept your belief in Him.

The Holy Spirit/Ghost: A nebulous kinda person thing. A bit like a misty cloud that can permeate the soul, only more holy than that. Its the driving force inside a follower of the christian orthodoxy that fills the creation with motivation and drive to be righteous. Kind of hard to understand this if you're the typical shallow, meatheaded human.