Blicero's "politics"

prozak at anus.com prozak at anus.com
Tue Feb 25 11:56:46 CST 2003


> Gnosticism gets a bad rap in some of the criticism, essentially because it
> isn't Christianity. 

Furthermore, it's from a form of the same intellectual tradition that 
produced Christianity, but in a construct that naturally opposes many 
of the doctrines "modern" Christians have come to depend upon.

> But even so, I don't know that Blicero's conception of "good" and "evil"
> breaks down neatly into a conflict between the spiritual realm and the
> material world. 

Any doctrine influences all doctrines - to be gnostic is to have a 
different view of nature, "evil," human function, etc. (I don't have 
an answer to the above either.)


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