Message from @NSJW
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gnosticism was a sort of bastardized neoplatonism with jewish and christian stuff mixed in
new age basically
there also seemed to be a lot of atheism in rome as well before christ
augustine was a neoplatonist before he converted to christianity
originally he was manichean
so those ideas had some influence on the church, not necessarily in a bad way
yeah very true
christians identified the Monad as YHVH
augustine showed that truth from non catholics can still be truth, from a theological standpoint
so it wasnt too difficult for neoplatonists to convert
because in terms of the actual identity of the One was not really expounded on
then Christians come around and they are the only real monotheists
surprisingly that is a big deal in terms of religions
islam stalled because they never could accept that idea
once you can accept that truth can come outside of faith, then you can respect the humanity of nonbelievers
if you want to shit on unironic Gnostics, which I have had to deal with, quote Plotinus to them
they are the most annoying faggots, worse than Fedoras, super antichristian and think they are woke
Plotinus and Irenus shit on gnostics
yeah and their "lost gospels" are just rewritten pagan legends
yeah
seriously, required reading for any christian https://www.amazon.ca/Bearing-False-Witness-Debunking-Anti-Catholic/dp/1599474999/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527447892&sr=8-1&keywords=bearing+false+witness
the only response gnostics ever have is "boo hoo the church suppressed us"
it was the fact that people left them because it was so obviously full of shit
even if the inquisition did kill a bunch of heretics and jews, it was a good thing
modern day love for the gnostics is just to subvert christianity
the dark ages being an era of stagnation because of the church is also total nonsense, just worthless anti-christian bullshit
its like saying the great depression was bc of the church
there is no such thing as the dark ages, it is a myth
i wish i still had a link to the article
historians agree that it was actually a period of awakening
but it talked about the times where the church suppressed scientists
that book I linked has a great chapter on the dark ages
and it showed that a lot of these scientists actually were occultists
and heretics
most of the scientists of the "dark ages" were priests
and they werent suppressed because of science but because they were literally dabbling in demonology
Bacon for instance
in history all the great scientists were devout christians