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>Society at large embraces it under the banner of liberal protestantism
What makes you say this? I find that grouping offensive even as someone who just finds Gnosticism interesting.

(I don't accept any old books as gospel and think all religions I've come across are almost certainly humans inventions, except that some might have a vaguely accurate broad outline if you squint. But if I had to choose one type of Christianity to follow, I'd go with a reconstructed Gnostic variety. And I would guess that something along those lines applies to most everyone who likes Gnosticism.)