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Replying to @arthur_affect
...how the bleep did Twitter get into accusing Judaism of being Gnostic? Do these people even know what Gnosticism is? Or what Judaism is?
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Replying to @82_Streetcar
Some Christians get really, really into saying basically any belief system that isn't Christianity is "Gnostic", because the Christian vs Gnostic struggle against "heresy" is the ancient conflict they've imprinted on
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Huh. As someone who's never been Christian, but has taken classes on the Early Church, I'm just...really confused what they think "gnostic" means, because it's really the wrong heresy to accuse Jews of.
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Replying to @82_Streetcar
I don't know anything about this guy in particular but a lot of annoying Christians are stuck on this idea that *only* orthodox Christianity is "salvation by grace" and all other religions/belief systems are "salvation by works", and they come up with a name for the latter
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Replying to @arthur_affect @82_Streetcar
Like, a lot of people today arguing in the Catholic tradition are big on calling any concept of "being rewarded for good deeds" "Pelagianism" Blaming the most basic and universal concept in human morality on one British monk, calling the reverse "Augustinianism" (Hey there Liz)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @82_Streetcar
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @82_Streetcar
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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(The distinction they're trying to draw here is ugly, it's the whole Catholic thing about saying that it's good and right for the masses to be ignorant and just do what the priesthood tells them to do and lay people trying to usurp the priesthood is a gateway to heresy)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @82_Streetcar
Wait, but…pic.twitter.com/HS3aRHNAg5
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Catholicism is just a heresy of the true faith. Adam and Eve were Lutherans. The original Eucharist was hotdish
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