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To: massmike
It struck me recently that the trans movement is really just another manifestation of the ancient Gnostic heresy with its extreme body/spirit duality.

"I was born in the wrong body" implies that one's mind/spirit/consciousness/soul is completely separate from one's body. It identifies the "I" with a spirit/soul that somehow is contained in a fleshly body that is so unimportant it can be cut/mangled/mutilated at will to conform with one's perceived spiritual imperative.

St. Augustine could have said something like that before his conversion away from Neo Platonism to Catholic orthodoxy.

The Church launched a violent crusade in southern France to put this crap down in the 12th - 13th centuries. The Church gets called down for its (shall we say?) excess of zeal to this day, but given the trans madness that has gripped our culture can anyone truly say now that the Church was wrong to do so?

Maybe burning a few Cathars at the stake wasn't so excessive after all?

What will it take to restore our culture to sanity?

17 posted on 05/16/2023 9:47:35 AM PDT by Thilly Thailor
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To: Thilly Thailor

Some Democrats have recently started voting for banning it too. Here is one example.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-democrat-sides-republicans-banning-sex-change-treatments-puberty-blockers-minors

I think the fact that Finland, Sweden and Norway (among others) all banned it recently is persuasive to them because Democrats tend to trust the health care policies of these countries.


19 posted on 05/16/2023 12:16:59 PM PDT by Krosan
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To: Thilly Thailor

The best exposition on this heresy is “Science, politics, and gnosticism” by Eric Vogelin.

I read it in my undergrad days; it explains perfectly the perversions of the left.

At one time it was required reading in college.


22 posted on 05/18/2023 2:23:04 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all antisemites)
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