3 Theories Of Everything by Ellis Potter

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As I also said, Perhaps you are more evidence based and logical than I am and see no need for consideration of a Creator for which there likely never be evidence. My perception of a Creator is personal while yours is likely hypothetical.

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I do have other reasons, such as the incoherence of Christianity.As for your personal reasons I will point out that any have similar reasons and come to beliefs significantly different from yours. Such reasons are clearly not reliable guides to the truth.

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Granted that is true, but I perceive science as trying to define reality based only on what it has to work with. There is nothing personal about science.

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We have to work with what we have. And science, unlike apologetics, has appropriate modesty (even if some practitioners fall short) and a good deal of internal criticism and correction.

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Potter was once a Buddhist. He evolved beyond Monism and Dualism and embraced Trinitarianism. (More specifically, Trinitarian Monotheism.)

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By which you mean he decided to declare his beliefs superior to everyone else’s without bothering to understand what he was rubbishing. That isn’t my idea of evolved.

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So here is a question for jar. Is Logic, Reason, and Reality three separate concepts?

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They are certainly not identical. Logic is a formalised subset of Reason, for instance. Reality would be everything that actually exists, as it actually exists, so I suppose it would include Reason (or at least actual instances of Reason - but perhaps we had better not get into the question of whether abstracts exist).

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I am rereading the book in light of jars challenge regarding Trinitarian Monotheism vs Monotheism (or perhaps in jars mind, Monism. Allah is a Monistic God. He had no son nor is he in communion with anybody)

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No. Allah is a monotheistic God. A monistic God (as Potter means it) would be pantheism which is not mainstream Islamic thought any more than it is mainstream Christian thought.
(Pantheism is derived from the same roots as Pantheon - but they aren’t otherwise related.)

Perhaps you should review my previous posts in this thread. There is sufficient there.