Despite my username I was raised in about the most Trad of all TradCath households you can imagine. AMA. Save me from being #14 in line at this cursed job audition

  • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Gnosticism is one of those tendencies that kind of merged Judaism, early Christianity and polytheism in a much more fluid way than post-Nicaea 2 orthodoxy. I honestly don't know too much about it except that it was declared heretical several times over and may have also partly inspired Sufism, which is pretty neat.

      • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        One can hope, but I'm not sure. When Spain began colonizing the Carribean and what is now Latin America, there was a lot of syncretism there too between the Catholics and the indigenous belief systems. A few monks in New Spain even commented in their journals how similar the natives' bloodletting rituals were to Catholic Eucharistic sacrament.

        With early Capitalism already pumping gas into the colonial engine, I don't know if a Gnostic Spain would have been acted any better.

          • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Hey, me too. There was one book I remember reading about a world where Christianity never replaced Roman Polytheism, but I forget the title. Basic outline of the world was that there was little-to-no gender discrimination, but slavery was still legal.