I learned in HS that much of Greek philosophy was preserved by Muslims and brought to Europe by trade. Before Mohammed there were the Mandaeans, a Gnostic religion still existing in present day Iraq.

Now you've given me something to look up, I had never heard of this group before, though I am familiar with gnostics. I find it interesting that they still maintain the title system of rabbi though

I find it interesting that they integrated baptism as a ritual. I took a quick glance at their main holy book, Ginza Rba, and it seems to be some metaphysical polytheism in which their gods embody aspects of the spiritual world.

>The name 'Mandaean' is said to come from the Aramaic manda meaning "knowledge", as does Greek gnosis
>According to most scholars, Mandaeaism originated sometime in the first three centuries AD, in either southwestern Mesopotamia or the Syro-Palestinian area.[6] However, some scholars take the view that Mandaeanism is older and dates from pre-Christian times.[7]
ok epic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandaeism

Also @Greg Noir I posted some stuff in <#587028275918929925> that may interest you

im happy that this went from atheists vs christians and some denomination debates to a satanist schizo posting

@OrthoGoat i dont see any jews here

this guy is basically a jew

This guy shills Jews

even worse than that he is looking into magic and rituals from pagans

the ammount of cringe is surreal

```Jews are theologically superior to you in nearly every way lol```

To muslims? Yeah they are and I stand by that

Jews are theologically inferior to everyone

At least muslims don't say Christ is in hell

Jews are literally just modern satanists, I dont see by what metric you can compare superiority in this case

jews HAVE always been satanists

satanists are jews

not all satanists are jews but all jews are satanists

satanism is very common with older religions

in what sense

theres representations of saturn AKA satan in many pagan religions

even the Egyptians had saturn as a god if im not wrong

The Romans and Greeks did

I think Zoroastronists also had representations of saturn but idk if they worshipped him, I need to look more into that

yes, but not as a deity that was worshipped @OrthoGoat

well that depends on the religion and sect really

but jews are special in this case because they have Satan as the primary god and the one that should be worshipped

yeah moloch

which was the babylonian diety of child sacrifice

the golden bull

@OrthoGoat
IAO = jupiter =jove=marduk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton#Septuagint_and_other_Old_Greek_translations

>>Iao

Jupiter.
Feminine name: Lordship.
Prophets: Samuel, Nathan, Jonah, Micah.
Perhaps from Yahu, Yahweh, but possibly also from the magic cry iao in the Mysteries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon_(Gnosticism)

Marduk means solar calf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_heifer

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Yaldabaoth

>>Possibly from Hebrew בֹ֔הוּת‎ יַלְדָּה‎ (yaldāh bōhūṯ, "daughter of [the] void") or its Aramaic equivalent ילדא בהות (yaldā’ bāhūṯ, "son of chaos")

Jehovah is jupiter

not Saturn