Post #3753825
2026-07-12 04:23 UTC
@muddle@infosec.exchange @sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange
There are a number of sects, some moderately large, that self-identify as Christian (and more or less so accepted by others) but are *not* Trinitarian, so the delightful joke is only _technically_ correct if restricted to Nicene Trinitarian faiths.
OTOH, if faith is modeled in Group Theory, the unity of the Trinity could also be consistent if S3 is an Ideal of the larger Ring or Field of the model representation?
So mod 2 isn't the unique representation, just one of ...
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@muddle@infosec.exchange 2026-07-12 04:23
@BRicker@fosstodon.org @sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange Careful now... that might be a backdoor for polytheism!
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@muddle@infosec.exchange 2026-07-12 04:27
@BRicker@fosstodon.org @sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange What I remember is I think that Sophie made a point a while back about how she likes to confront born-again Christians about their views on the whole Nicene thing. I don't know enough about it, including why it might be a bit of a doctrinal hand grenade but I filed it away and your explanation sheds a bit more light on what she was talking about originally.