Dragon
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Christians only have a problem with the idea of the Trinity because they think of God as a discrete entity, a person with concrete boundaries -- this-not-that. Reality has no absolute boundaries, though; they are all products of human cognition applied to experience. God cannot be experienced in totality, because the human mind is incapable of that feat, and so for him/her/it to appear in more than one form is exactly what we should expect.
Other religions that don't make such a point of discrete boundaries don't have the same conceptual problems. In Hinduism, for example, it is understood that all of the gods, along with everything else, are one, the one being Brahman, the cosmic soul. This means there is a unity underlying the divine diversity. A similar concept was found in ancient Greco-Roman thought, and in most polytheistic systems among the philosophically inclined.
Other religions that don't make such a point of discrete boundaries don't have the same conceptual problems. In Hinduism, for example, it is understood that all of the gods, along with everything else, are one, the one being Brahman, the cosmic soul. This means there is a unity underlying the divine diversity. A similar concept was found in ancient Greco-Roman thought, and in most polytheistic systems among the philosophically inclined.