What is gnosticism and what does it have to do with transsexual rights, abortion and the woke movement? This ancient mystery religion is making a big comeback today. Once you understand what gnosticism is, you can't un-see it--but you can see its influences nearly everywhere in advertising, literature, movies, and social media. It is once again becoming part of the cultural air we breathe in everything from cremation to Disney movies. In this episode we examine gnosticism and its relationship both to Christianity and to the woke movement. No culture and no civilization that encourages gnostic tendencies and exalts the autonomous self can survive.
Sources: Gnosticism, by Gervase M. Charmley, Banner of Truth (2016)
The New Gender Gnostics, by Craig A. Carter, Eikon (spring 2020)
Gnosticism, The Christian Institute