Wot on earth is Gnostic Paganism? It's just a name. The Gnostics were early Christians who believed that the world had been created by an evil god, and that the evil god still ruled over them. While we believe no such thing, it's interesting insofar as we believe Jehovah (Allah) – the god worshipped by Jews, Christians and Muslims – to be a thoroughly evil and despicable deity.Further we believe that the worship of such a foul fabrication has plunged the world into war after war, and has so perverted men's minds as to lead us to the very brink of extinction.
Gnostics treated women as equals, allowed them to own land and property, encouraged them to teach and to assume positions of responsiblity within society. The exact opposite of the Christianity we got.
We are pagans in the sense that we have as the symbol of peace, Lucifer, he who was cast out of so-called "heaven" by the evil and bloodthirsty god, Jehovah.
You could say that Gnostic Paganism is Christianity with all the bad bits erased, and the good bits emphasised. "BAD BITS! How dare you say there are bad bits!" First let me explain, this group is not meant for dyed in the wool Christians who believe precisely what they're told to believe and couldn't engage the analytical side of their brains, even if their lives depended on it.
No, Luciferions are for intelligent people who are fairly comfortable with the concept of Christianity but suspect that something is not quite right about it. Like, it doesn't give the whole answer, letalone the whole truth.
Clearly, Jesus was not a "christ", because there are no such things as christs. Eggs fertilised, not by sperm, but by a sky god, is a scientific impossibility. And brain dead corpses do not come back to life. We're not talking here about someone whose heart stops for a few minutes and is revived before their brain turns to mush. We're talking about corpses, dead for three days in the desert. They don't come back to life. And if Mary Shelly, creator of Frankenstein, could make it so, she'd better have a nice healthy brain on hand to replace the one that has putrefied.
Jesus was a man of mixed morals. Assuming he actually lived, which is doubtful, he insisted he had come to save Jews, no one else. He forbade his disciples to even speak to gentiles, such scum are we. Jesus was content to allow a Canaanite child to die rather than attempt a cure. He called the child's mother a "dog" because she wasn't a Jew.
Jesus condoned slavery. He saw slavery all around him and yet not once did he condemn the practice, in fact, on hearing that some slave owners were treating their slaves with consideration, bordering on kindness, he ridiculed them. Jesus agreed with Jehovah that Jews had a divine right to capture, keep and maltreat slaves. The slave trade continued until the late 19th century and whenever challenged, the traders would point to passages in the Old and New Testaments to authenticate their alleged right to continue their vile trade.
Jesus insisted that he had come not to bring peace, but a sword. Not love, but hatred. He boasted that he had come to split families, to turn family members against each other. He fantasised about a world in flames. He advised men to mutilate themselves, to sever a hand and to gouge out an eye. He advocated castration "for heaven's sake". Anyone who disagreed with his point of view, he condemned to an eternity spent writhing in flames.
Jesus was a nasty piece of work. Not only was he not a "Christ", he wasn't even a decent human being. Hitler, for all his faults, did not condemn his enemies to an eternity spent writhing in flames. That honour goes exclusively to Jesus. His inclination to condemn most of the planet to hell makes a mockery of platitudes like "Love thine enemies."
And yet after he was dead and gone, and the so-called gospels written, people added some good bits to them. During the fourth century, someone – probably a Gnostic – interpolated (forged and inserted) the passage about "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." In my opinion, that one sentence comes close to redeeming the entire New Testament. Whoever said it, exposed righteousness for all its hypocritical falseness. And then there's the parable of the Good Samaritan. What a wonderful story, what an example to the world. Clearly it wasn't told by Jesus because Jesus loathed and detested Samaritans. But someone, a person completely unknown, slipped that story into the book of Matthew.
Gnostic Paganism – better known as Luciferionism – embraces those latter-day interpolations from the New Testament while casting the odious Old Testament and the bulk of the New Testament, into the bowels of hell. We do not need books which glorify murder, cruelty and terror.
But before we cast the Bible into the flames, we choose to rescue one character from it. Lucifer, he who was courageous enough to defy the Hebrew gods of hate and war. He who was banished from heaven for challenging god's authority and savagery. Lucifer, sometimes called Satan, is the only deity in the Bible, untainted by greed, ignorance, cruelty and madness. Lucifer is therefore our role model. And we are called Luciferions.
Darwin Copernicus