November 21, 2004

• Trinity and Counterpoint

  Today’s Roman Catholic meditation is from Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army:

  “I certainly regret what happened and I make no bones about that,” Adams said on the 30th anniversary of pub bombings that killed 21 on Nov. 21, 1974, in Birmingham, England.

  Those who care what Roman Catholics think of the Trinity may read the remarks of St. Bonaventure at math16.com.

  That site also offers a less holy but more intelligible trinity based on the irrefutable fact that 3 x 8 = 24 and on a remarkable counterpoint between group actions on a 4×2 array and group actions on a 4×4 array.

  For a Protestant view of this trinity, see a website at the University of Birmingham in England.

  That site’s home page links to Birmingham’s City Evangelical Church.

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