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To: A. Pole; B-Chan
Gnostics were influenced by Plato and concept of Demiurge (imperfect creator) is present in Plato's philosophy.

The Greek gods were imperfect and humanistic. They exibited all vice and virtue, basically behaving like drunken sailors on Earth, yet they all get their come-upence and demonstrate the universality of life.

102 posted on 05/09/2003 5:15:20 PM PDT by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus, Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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To: ffusco
Demiurge is Gnostic thing not a Platonic thing, you've got it out of order. The gnostics were influencd by Plato, but, then again, so was the early church, and later, most notably, St Augustine.
103 posted on 05/09/2003 5:56:45 PM PDT by Blackyce (President Jacques Chirac: "As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.")
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To: ffusco
The Greek gods were imperfect and humanistic

Olympians, yes. But not all Greek gods were Olympians.

105 posted on 05/09/2003 6:11:55 PM PDT by cornelis (What's a god worth if not humanistic?)
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