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Having acquired a reputation for being willing to take out almost any garbage, no matter how malodorous, we have not been surprised of late to be asked to take another shot at Nazi Christ-myther Revilo P. Oliver, whose profile we previous composed here some time ago. What's he up to now, retroactively speaking? It's an item in which he assures us that Unitarianism was "more authentically Christian than the Trinitarian nonsense." Not that he prefers either to begin with, but in his view the whole Trin-complex was (what else?) 'excogitated by a pack of holy men, led by an agitator named Athanasius" (though he also denies that the Athanasian Creed was anything but "a later forgery under his name"!) and is no different than the "Hindu Trimurti (Brahman, Vishnu, Siva), the Capitoline Triad at Rome (originally, Jupiter, Quirinus, Mars; later, Jupiter, Juno, Minerva), and the three gods who shared the great temple at Uppsala (Odin, Thor, Frey)."

Is that so? It is not so. Neither Odin and Thor with their order of Frey, nor the Hindu three, nor the Roman, is any more "Trinitarian" than Moe, Larry and Curly. We've explored what's behind Trinitarianism here. Does Oliver know anything about hypostases? No. Does he know anything about Wisdom literature? No, scratch that as well. He hints that "quite a few details of the Jesus-myth were taken from the story of Krishna" (not that he gives examples; but see our entry for Krishna here); he tells us a fantasy story, completely undocumented, of the Marcionites being the largest of the Christian sects, of sexual seduction of Mary, of broad statements on every subject without a shred of documentation. There is of course his expected bigotry ("...Aryans whose moral sense has not been anaesthetized are naturally repelled by the Jewish ethics of the 'Old Testament,'", etc.) and the article even plainly endorses the idea that the Holocaust was a Jewish myth ("The Jews are using every resource from open terrorism to their control of all the media of communication to force their Aryan cattle to believe their great hoax.") and rambles on for several paragraphs on the subject. But not a word of hypostases or anything having to do with the Logos/Wisdom. Oliver closes by wryly noting how odd he finds it that Unitarian ministers reject the myth of the Trinity, but accept the myth of the Holocaust!

In short, as before Oliver is full of nothing resembling documented fact. What may be far more frightening is that the extent of his knowledge parallels that of many other critics of Trinitarianism who are no wiser.