>>82900954
I'm not exactly religious, I must admit. But Gnostic religion, not just christian, makes the most sense to me. Manichaeism is a beautiful gnostic sect that tried unite Buddhism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism under a Gnostic umbrella. Ironically, Manichaeism's tendency to adopt the colors of whatever local religions it encountered were probably what helped doom it. Rather than confidently asserting itself as something different, it kinda turned itself into a super heresy for every religion (Christian, Zoroastrian, Hindu, and Buddhist). Adopting so much of local faiths would have also facilitated its followers gradually being re-absorbed back into the dominant religion