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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of gnostic attitudes and traits in the modern [[history]] and society{{#tag:ref|cf.''"[Gnosticism] is by no means an outdated [[phenomenon]] of only historical interest"''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}}:

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of gnostic attitudes and traits in the modern [[history]] and society{{#tag:ref|cf.''"[Gnosticism] is by no means an outdated [[phenomenon]] of only historical interest"''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?

***Reference to Jesus being “''a Jew''” in v. 9 was changed to “''who comes from Judea''”.

***Reference to Jesus being “''a Jew''” in v. 9 was changed to “''who comes from Judea''”.

*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}}

*Manipulating (editing) the [[Scripture]], mainly the [[Old Testament]], by proponents of [[LGBT]] ideology resulting in version of the Bible titled ''The Queen James Bible''.<ref name="Queen James">{{cite web

*Manipulating (editing) the [[Scripture]], mainly the [[Old Testament]], by proponents of [[LGBT]] ideology resulting in version of the Bible titled ''The Queen James Bible''.<ref name="Queen James">{{cite web

|title=A ‘Wicked Bible’ for the 21st century? The Queen James Bible

|title=A ‘Wicked Bible’ for the 21st century? The Queen James Bible

The QJV translation was labelled as spurious where every single change made was an inexcusable bastardization of the text violating translation principles.<ref name="Queen James"/>  

The QJV translation was labelled as spurious where every single change made was an inexcusable bastardization of the text violating translation principles.<ref name="Queen James"/>  

*The mysterious gnosis pertinent to a unique secret knowledge by pro-LGBT 'elite', is often in LGBT ideology referred to as ''"an evolutionary enigma"''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Homosexuality as a Consequence of Epigenetically Canalized Sexual Development|author=William R. Rice, Urban Friberg and Sergey Gavrilets|date=December 2012|accessdate=24-Feb-2013|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/10.1086/668167.pdf?acceptTC=true|quote=This paper argues that sexually antagonistic selection can also be involved in epigenetic effects and explain the enigmatic high prevalence of several fitness-reducing human characters. ... Homosexuality is frequently considered to be an unusual phenotype because it represents an evolutionary enigma —a trait that is expected to reduce Darwinian fitness, yet it persists at substantial frequency across many different (possibly all) human populations.}}</ref> The pseudo-Christianity made to fit the LGBT agenda is usually labelled as ''"progressive"''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Schlesinger: Prestaňme sa točiť okolo hriechu|author=Michal Piško|publisher=SME.SK|date=8 June 2012|accessdate=24 Feb 2013|url=http://www.sme.sk/c/6410997/schlesinger-prestanme-sa-tocit-okolo-hriechu.html#ixzz2Lqf1wUA2|language=Slovak|quote=„Na Slovensku, žiaľ, neexistuje iný názor cirkvi na túto tému. V zahraničí je tento názor cirkví podstatne progresívnejší, žila som v USA, mám priateľov zo škandinávskych krajín a tam sa nevylučuje byť gejom a dobrým veriacim. Nie je to univerzálny názor každého cirkevného spoločenstva na svete.“}}</ref>  

*The 'mysterious gnosis' pertinent to a unique secret knowledge by pro-LGBT 'elite', is often in LGBT ideology referred to as ''"an evolutionary enigma"''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Homosexuality as a Consequence of Epigenetically Canalized Sexual Development|author=William R. Rice, Urban Friberg and Sergey Gavrilets|date=December 2012|accessdate=24-Feb-2013|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/10.1086/668167.pdf?acceptTC=true|quote=This paper argues that sexually antagonistic selection can also be involved in epigenetic effects and explain the enigmatic high prevalence of several fitness-reducing human characters. ... Homosexuality is frequently considered to be an unusual phenotype because it represents an evolutionary enigma —a trait that is expected to reduce Darwinian fitness, yet it persists at substantial frequency across many different (possibly all) human populations.}}</ref> The pseudo-Christianity made to fit the LGBT agenda is usually labelled as ''"progressive"''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Schlesinger: Prestaňme sa točiť okolo hriechu|author=Michal Piško|publisher=SME.SK|date=8 June 2012|accessdate=24 Feb 2013|url=http://www.sme.sk/c/6410997/schlesinger-prestanme-sa-tocit-okolo-hriechu.html#ixzz2Lqf1wUA2|language=Slovak|quote=„Na Slovensku, žiaľ, neexistuje iný názor cirkvi na túto tému. V zahraničí je tento názor cirkví podstatne progresívnejší, žila som v USA, mám priateľov zo škandinávskych krajín a tam sa nevylučuje byť gejom a dobrým veriacim. Nie je to univerzálny názor každého cirkevného spoločenstva na svete.“}}</ref>  

*The contemporary yellow journalism and [[liberal]] media often misuse the Gnostic texts or even add uncritically accepted related 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 Gnostic ''[[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? |date= Apr. 08, 1996 |publisher=Time Magazine |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>

*The contemporary yellow journalism and [[liberal media]] often misuse the Gnostic texts or even add uncritically accepted related 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 Gnostic ''[[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? |date= Apr. 08, 1996 |publisher=Time Magazine |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==