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Gnosticism

In Our Time: Religion

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The God of the Old Testament

The god of the old testament fundamentally as being the evil, evil deity. Eit's reacting to really a kind of collapse of traditional, hierarchical, established religions - nobody particularly believed in zeus or jupiter. Ben very similar to contemporary society, where traditionally established communities who had been largely agrarian were now moving into the cities.

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