Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Articles of Religiosity - Pt. 1

The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion were established in 1563, and are the defining statements of Anglican doctrine in relation to the controversies of the English Reformation; especially in the relation of Calvinist doctrine and Roman Catholic practices to the emerging Anglican doctrine of the evolving English Church.

While they stay unread in the back of books rarely used in the Anglican Church one wonders if it is not time to dust off those books and make the Anglican Church more accessible to people by engaging in a re-working of said doctrinal statements such that the faith and ultimately God are more easily accessible and consumed by the populous of unbelievers.

As time permits I will endeavour to make such bold translations such that even those of no faith might come to reconcile themselves to the Great Acquaintance.

1. Of Faith in the Holy Trinity - Of Rationality in the Power of Three

THERE is likely, yea probably, but one living and true non-specific deity of your choice, everlasting, without body, parts, or passions; of limitless power, braininess, and goodness; the factory worker of all factory workers and CEO of all CEO's thus making and preserving all things seen and unseen. And in the unity of this non-specific deity of your choosing there be the power of three persons, such that all mathematic reasoning is to be put aside in order that three may be one and one may be three to be given titles willy nilly and without discretion to their true nature; Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

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