> God as Gould Choking on Toxic Doses of Liberal Gnosis
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> THE O’FARRELL COLUMN
> 2nd March 2008
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>     You can’t base a religion on 1+1=2. You don’t need faith to
> believe the obvious and you don’t value it. That’s why the world’s
> most successful religion is based on 1+1+1=1. In Christianity, the
> Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are three persons but one God. It’s
> not an obvious truth, so you need faith to believe it and will value
> it. Christianity promises to supply unobvious truths, even paradoxical
> truths, things that you aren’t going to learn or guess for yourself.
> You can know what the Lord of the Universe thinks and wants! It’s a
> powerful appeal, but it has a flaw for some people: it isn’t exclusive
> enough. Christianity’s early competitor, gnosticism, made the same
> promise, but to a select few, not to everyone. By studying the right
> texts, sitting before the right teachers, performing the right
> ceremonies, initiates could achieve gnosis – secret knowledge. But ...