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Atheism might be fucking stupid, but Buddhism/Gnosticism is really, really fucking stupid. Being deluded into thinking that the Universe is purposeless and unintelligent is somehow less stupid than to believe that the Universe is a malevolent soul trap.
Those 100 AD-400 AD Gnostic literary forgeries don't even agree with each other, because different Gnostics believed different things.
Gnosticism started out in Alexandria, Egypt. This was the largest city in the world, and it was a mixing cauldron of different religions and different sorcerers.
Gnosticism started out as a repudiation of Greek Mythology - Zeus, Apollo, Dionysus, etc. were recast as evil "Archons" (Mayors). You can find this language in the "Greek Magical Papyri".
>[Betz] notes how Zeus, Hermes, Apollo, Artemis, and Aphrodite, among others, are portrayed not as Hellenic or Hellenised aristocrats, as in contemporary literature, but as demonic or even dangerous, much like in Greek folklore.[9]
Gnosticism could not stand intellectual scrutiny:
>The evidence shows an intellectual, eclectic community rising out of the ruins of the Jewish quarter in Alexandria after AD 117, losing the intellectual war in Alexandria by the early third century, and going on the run southward, away from the ecclesiastical authorities in Alexandria.
Where are the Gnostic Martyrs? How is it that we don't even know the name of one? Maybe it's because they didn't exist, because nobody was willing to die for the Sophia or the Aeons or whatever. There is no Gnostic "Hypatia"