[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - GNOSTICISM today

[Unam Sanctam]

Of course Gnosticism had both an extreme ascetic side and a hedonistic side, both based on the proposition that spirit is better than matter. The modern heresies, however, are not in any way ascetic or spiritual, but materialistic hedonism pure and simple, and not because matter doesnt' matter, as Gnostics and Cathars thought, but because material pleasure is the most important value to modernists.

[HarleyD]

"In other words, differences over the importance of the body are the wedge that drives most denominations apart -- with the result that traditional Roman Catholics have more in common with Southern Baptists than with their Gnostic brethren and evangelical Anglicans are closer to the Eastern Orthodox than to their "revisionist" coreligionists."

Unfortunately this truth has not sunk into the minds of many of the traditionals who would rather defend their doctrine then defend the church.