This is a swastika I can feel calm looking at. No bright screaming red, no anger no hatred. Just a nice sky blue. This is a flag I can feel relaxed with.
@intentionalisms There was pre-Christian sort of Gnostic groups but it mainly came out of Jesus’s teachings not lining up with the Old Testament. That’s why some began to believe the OT God and Jesus’s God are two different entities.
@intentionalisms Early Christianity bought with it a number of material demands for the transformation of Roman slave society, and reaction against it often took the form of relegating God to the purely spiritual realm. This still happens within Christianity but nobody calls them Gnostics.