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==Gnosticism Today==
==Gnosticism Today==
Although there are no explicit declarations of any direct connections, it is still of great curiosity to find parallels of gnostic attitudes and traits in modern [[history]]{{#tag:ref|cf.''"[Gnosticism] is by no means an outdated [[phenomenon]] of only historical interest"''<ref name="Skarsaune"/>|group=note}}:
Although there are no explicit declarations of any direct connections, it is still of great curiosity to find parallels of gnostic attitudes and traits in the modern [[history]] and society{{#tag:ref|cf.''"[Gnosticism] is by no means an outdated [[phenomenon]] of only historical interest"''<ref name="Skarsaune"/>|group=note}}:
*Rejection of Old Testament and manipulating (editing) the [[Scripture]] by [[Nazism|Nazists]] resulting in dejudaized version of the New Testament (NT), titled ''Die Botschaft Gottes'' (The Message of God)<ref name="Die Botschaft Gottes">{{cite web
*Rejection of Old Testament and manipulating (editing) the [[Scripture]] by [[Nazism|Nazists]] resulting in ''dejudaized'' version of the New Testament (NT), titled ''Die Botschaft Gottes'' (The Message of God)<ref name="Die Botschaft Gottes">{{cite web
|title=Did Hitler rewrite the Bible?
|title=Did Hitler rewrite the Bible?
|author=Russell Grigg
|author=Russell Grigg
*Objections to Old Testament by [[New Atheism]] on the grounds that it makes references to ''cruel God the Creator''; [[Richard Dawkins]] in his [[The God Delusion]] (2006) wrote (p.31):
*Objections to Old Testament by [[New Atheism]] on the grounds that it makes references to ''cruel God the Creator''; [[Richard Dawkins]] in his [[The God Delusion]] (2006) wrote (p.31):
''"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."''{{#tag:ref|cf."''To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd.''" [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=%202%20Samuel%2022:26-27&version=NIV Bible, 2 Samuel 22: 26-27 (NIV)]|group=note}}
''"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."''{{#tag:ref|cf."''To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd.''" [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=%202%20Samuel%2022:26-27&version=NIV Bible, 2 Samuel 22: 26-27 (NIV)]|group=note}}
*The contemporary yellow journalism and [[liberal]] media often misuse the Gnostic texts or even add uncritically accepted discoveries or speculations, doubted and criticized by mainstream scholars, in their obsession with sensational. In 1996 the ''[[Time magazine]]'', known for liberal bias, reported on the group of self-described 'experts and scholars' known as ''Jesus Seminar'' who declared to have special ''‘knowledge‘'' on origin of Gospels thus presented their own ''edited'' version of Bible with addition of Gonostic ''[[Gospel of Thomas]]'' as what they called ''‘The Scholars Version‘''. A. Boyd wrote a devastating critique of such liberal perspectives in his ''Cynic Sage or Son of God? - Recovering the Real Jesus in an Age of Revisionist Replies''.<ref>{{cite web |author=David Van Biema |title=The Gospel of Truth? |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,984367,00.html |acessdate=2012-11-08}}</ref><ref name="Case4Christ">{{cite book |title=The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus |author= Lee Strobel |publisher=Zondervan |year=1998, 2008 |chapter=6. section: Jesus and the "Mystery religions"|pages=120-125 |isbn=0-310-29604-8 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ydVw3pbYZbgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=sTROBEL+CASE+cHRIST&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-ImbUNiSBsjusgaR84GIDA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=gnosticism&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Cynic Sage or Son of God? - Recovering the Real Jesus in an Age of Revisionist Replies |author= Gregory A. Boyd|publisher=Wipf & Stock Pub. |year=1996, 2010|isbn=978-1-6089-9953-8|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=T5NUtwAACAAJ&dq=Boyd+Cynic+Sage+or+Son+of+God%3F+-+Recovering+the+Real+Jesus+in+an+Age+of+Revisionist+Replies&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5qSbUPXIOIfssgbNlIC4Cw&redir_esc=y}}</ref>
==See Also==
==See Also==