You're a member of a dime a dozen messianic personality cult that happened to go viral over and above its many competitors because an Emperor liked ithttps://twitter.com/MahlerLCMS/status/1303147746958782465 …
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But a lot of other people like to go in on the Gnostics instead Boiling down the "Gnostic heresy" to the basic concept that "learning things makes you better and smarter than being ignorant", or even to the simple idea that "learning moral truths is possible at all"
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This was an argument Socrates had with Protagoras, so it has a pedigree But yeah I can see the logic of an asshole from the Christian tradition trying to dunk on their idea of the Jewish mandate to study and meditate on the Torah as "gnosticism"
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How is that arguing in the Catholic tradition, though? Catholicism treats both works and faith as necessary for salvation, and has a whole concept of penance as a solution for one's works not being good enough...it seems more like a form of Protestants attacking Catholicism.
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The whole "sola fide" thing was a Protestant---Lutheran, specifically, I believe---invention.
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