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Re:As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity ha... by User23 on Sunday June 13, 2021 @12:38AM (#27489794)
Atheism is actually a species of the gnostic heresy. Absolute certainty of the nonexistence of God is gnosis.
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Re:As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity ha... by dragonwriter on Sunday June 13, 2021 @12:48AM (#27489823)
> Absolute certainty of the nonexistence of God is gnosis.

Absolute certainty of any spiritual truth is gnosis, but that of the nonexistence God is not one of the Gnostic heresies (which are specific heresies associated with the specific Gnostics, not a anything which happens to fit the definition of gnosiss.)

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