The Christian doctrine of the Trinity is an attempt to explicate God’s symmetry (and the resulting symmetry of everything that exists) in a way that doctrines of the bare unity of God, or of the multiplicity of gods in polytheism, fail in their various ways to achieve. To stress the asymmetry between these doctrines would, however, be impious — for non-Trinitarian doctrines are never so bad, nor Trinitarian ones so good, that the fundamental symmetry between them is broken. Indeed, the doctrine of the Trinity must be thought together with the doctrine of creation and the doctrine of the Incarnation and the doctrine of the fall of human beings from their calling — a fall that is original and can never be put aside in, say, the formulation of doctrines — if our consideration is to be appropriate to it. Which is why the Church must always acknowledge itself as a pilgrim church on earth.

The first job of politics  (to mention only politics) is to respect symmetry. The symmetry between our time and past and future times, the symmetry between creatures large and small, the symmetry between peoples, the symmetry between you and me. The symmetry that is the balanced scale of law and justice.

Where asymmetry is stressed, the murder of God is taking place under our hands, even now.

Are you a champion of asymmetrical warfare?

Congratulations!  You are a conservative!