
SATANIC PANIC!
Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma
The Shadow Narrative of the Gnostics
Gnostics think that the material world is a mess. Although most, most traditional Christians think that too. And so yeah, they had this very different view and it was popular, but it got kind of quashed and went underground. It became like the, like you said, the shadow. Right? The snake, the serpent in the garden is giving you spiritual knowledge or just knowledge at all is something that's going to free you from the material world. Yeah. This, I don't know enough about to say much on, but it makes sense. Why is that going to stop you, Steve? Why would that? Why would you?It's true. Let me go ahead
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