thinkin’ ‘bout the Holy Trinity, and how the notion that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are all the same God is kind of a personification of a translatio imperii-style succession of legitimacy, the concept that the Israelite national religion, Jesus’ cult, and the apostolic churches were all the same institution

thinkin’ ‘bout Pentecost, which I haven’t much before because my Christian background was Catholic, which I like to say is Princess Bride Christianity – you don’t read the book yourself, you just have an elder figure read you the Good Parts Version; plus they’ve got another doctrine of the succession of legitimacy from Jesus onward in Matthew 16:18 and Petrine primacy