[lbo-talk] Gnostic Gospels and Conspiracy Theory

mike larkin mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 8 22:55:52 PDT 2006


--- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:


> Joanna wrote:
> <blockquote>It was Neitzche who said that the death
> of Socrates and
> Jesus were the
> two best disguised suicides in history. I always
> thought he was right;
> now, there's evidence
>
>
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5922_1669766,0015002500000000.htm</blockquote>
>
>
> But if Judas didn't betray Jesus, there would be no
> real conflict and
> no human drama!
>
> The structure of gnostic gospels resembles that of
> conspiracy theory,
> or rather conspiracy theory may have taken its
> narrative structure
> from gnostic gospels.
>
> Also, the idea of secret teaching in gnostic gospels
> makes the story
> less democratic than the story in the four gospels
> in the New
> Testament.
>
> Yoshie
>

Weren't the Gnostic gospels written well after the canonical ones, at least a century or two?

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