That’s actually the funniest part.
Internet Gnostics think they are anti-system and cool because they are "out of the Matrix". They stumbled across some YouTube video where they discover this Gnosis thing for the first time and
“WHOA!”
Next they google up some hippie Gnostic websites telling them they are smarter than the average bear for realizing this cool secret where there’s a Goddess and mean ‘ol misogynist Yahweh is only for low-class bible-thumpin Hillbilles who are afraid of sex.
“I knew it!”
They never learn the part where the Essenes were hard-core militant ascetic weirdos akin to ISIS who hated women and would have slit your throat in a heartbeat for simply wandering into their village.
I’ve been doing this for 20 years LS. After wrestling you guys to the mat on textual criticisms and Neo-Platonism, you always wind up saying “
Well, I just like it cuz I like it”. There. I just saved both of us a LOT of typing.
Here’s my 20 year-old copy of Nag Hammadi.
Show me yours.