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Today's episode,

Like Father Like Son, debating the Trinity.

I don't know if you're familiar with Reese's peanut butter cups. They were nearly invented in the 19th century by George Washington Carver, who was credited with the idea of peanut butter itself.

Amazingly, he stopped there rather rather than taking the next natural step of coating a small

puck of peanut butter and chocolate and wrapping the result in luridly orange plastic.

As Dirk gently said, it takes a genius to render the previously

non-existent obvious, and in this case the genius in question was H.B. Reese, who

devised the peanut butter cup in 1928.

When I was a kid, they were marketed with commercials that are emblazoned upon my memory.

At a cinema, a boy is eating a chocolate bar, and a girl is enjoying peanut butter straight from the jar, as one does at the movies.

Both jump at the horror movie playing on screen, with the result that the chocolate lands in the peanut butter.

The result?

Surprisingly delicious.

They turn out to be, as the 1970s tagline put it, two tastes that taste great together.

Why am I bothering you with this?

This episode isn't really being brought to you by Hershey, the maker of Reese's peanut butter

cups, though if they'd like to send me a year's supply and thanks for the free publicity, that wouldn't go amiss.

Rather, my thinking is that debates over the Trinity were the Reese's peanut butter cup of medieval philosophy.

Some have a taste for the rational inquiry of philosophy, others for their revelatory truth claims of religion.

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