(November 13, 2014 at 8:33 am)strawdawg Wrote: I was raised a Catholic and we were taught that the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit were three distinct individuals. Wouldn't that be polytheism?
Of course, but when you take into account antiquity, there was tons of polytheism during the start of that splinter spin off off Hebrews. And even the Hebrew religion itself stems from Canaanite polytheism.
You wont get either to admit it is nothing more than just another superstition in competition with other superstitions.