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Originally Posted by countdown2chaos
Agreed, yet, if they were going to use organized religion, I really wish they would of used the more "correct" of them, the Gnostic text and the Nag Hammadi library. But they really don't serve well together as organized, but shit, there'd be *less dogma and plain out stupidity, at least in gnosticism you have to THINK and DO, rather than sit on a pew and be told what to believe.
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Absolutely. In those times, however, it was easier for the central authority to keep the people in line by scaring them with tales of hellfire and demons and a God-incarnate named Jesus instead of giving them texts that instead of making vague and unfounded promises endowed the readers with wisdom and forethought. It's a shame Constantine was so short-sighted.