Is there another Trinity?

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Ok so, the Catholic Belief is with the Holy Trinity. God the Father, Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

I think I read somewhere that there is also an evil one, consiiting of the anti-christ, satan, and something else.

Can somone explain this to me
 
Do you know where it was you read this? I’ve never heard anything like that.
 
That is not Catholic doctrine. It is popular with horror movies though and other folklore based on religious doctrine, that evil is the opposite of good, so that everything that God has or is, the devil is a perversion of it. So if there is a Holy Trinity, there is an Unholy Trinity. Some even propose that the anti-Christ at the end of times is the son of the devil, as Christ is the Son of God. But this is just all derived from Christian belief and is not really part of Church teaching.
 
Ok. Sorry If I offended anyone. Just wanted to make sure.
 
I think people sometimes might make such an assumption after reading the book of Revelation. In it you hear about the Dragon (Satan) and his wicked helpers and it would be easy to think that the trio was a sort of anti-Trinity. And, as Satan is the great counterfeiter, this is likely something he’d like people to believe. However, Satan is one imperfect being. Whereas God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is perfect. So at best all Satan and his helpers are is a trio, a gang of three. But they are all individual, separate, imperfect, wicked beings.
 
There’s two popular pop culture stories that presents the devil as an unholy trinity. One is the video game Diablo, where you have Diablo, Mephisto, and I forgot the third one. I guess he’s the one you’ll have to kill in the upcoming installment of the game.

Then there’s the move Constantine starring Keanu Reeves, based from the comic book Hell Blazer. In the movie John Constantine was preventing the son of the devil from being born on earth and taking over. Not really trinity but one of the numerous fictional horror stories that presents the devil as having a son also.

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I just remembered in Dante’s inferno, the devil has three faces and each mouth was chewing on a soul of a traitor, one was Judas, I forgot the other two. But there was one devil but with three faces buried in ice.
 
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Ok so, the Catholic Belief is with the Holy Trinity. God the Father, Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

I think I read somewhere that there is also an evil one, consiiting of the anti-christ, satan, and something else.

Can somone explain this to me
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I know of the World, the Flesh, and the Devil - three things we must fight against all the days of our lives. Could this be what you are thinking of?
 
The evil trinity is an anology consisting of the Beast or the Anti-Christ, False Prophet and Satan or the Dragon.
 
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