Mystery or muddle? The Trinity

Mystery or muddle? The Trinity 5

When I was an atheist I regarded religious people as deluded and irrational souls who believed all sorts of ridiculous nonsense. If I had been asked to single out what I regarded as the most absurd aspect of Christian belief, I would have pointed to the doctrine of the Trinity. How can God be three and one at the same time? It was simply gibberish, on the same level as the ideas of one of P. G. Wodehouse’s most brilliant literary creations, the empty-headed Madeline Bassett – a passionate advocate of the belief that ‘the stars are God’s daisy chain’ or that ‘every time a fairy blows its wee nose a baby is born’...