Cassandra
Situationist
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« on: June 05, 2021, 05:28:00 PM » |
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I'm considering joining a Gnostic Christian church. I want to ask whether anyone here has any thoughts on gnostic ideas or anything else relevant.
About me: I was raised southern baptist, lost my faith as a teenager, and through myself into political struggle almost in place of my once fervent faith. I no longer believe political change, at least through any of the conventional avenues, is possible. I now find myself without purpose, and I feel the spiritual void stronger than ever. I've tried looking into other religions, buddhism for example, but it's all over my head. For better or worse, the "language" of Christianity is the only spiritual symbolic order that makes sense to me. That said, I don't have it within me to earnestly believe in the *bodily* resurrection of Jesus Christ. The gnostic tradition seems friendly to spiritual seekers and open to various interpretations of the bible, including metaphorical ones, which draws me.
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