If nobody knows what Gnosticism is, how can it be the problem? It seems to me that much present suffering stems from a belief that religion is irrelevant, divisive and potentially harmful, not that we are divine beings with divine will while trapped in corporeal form.
GNOSTICISM
The theory of salvation by knowledge. Already in the first century of the Christian era there were Gnostics who claimed to know the mysteries of the universe. They were disciples of the various pantheistic sects that existed before Christ. The Gnostics borrowed what suited their purpose from the Gospels, wrote new gospels of their own, and in general proposed a dualistic system of belief. Matter was said to be hostile to spirit, and the universe was held to be a depravation of the Deity. Although extinct as an organized religion, Gnosticism is the invariable element in every major Christian heresy, by its denial of an objective revelation that was completed in the apostolic age and its disclaimer that Christ established in the Church a teaching authority to interpret decisively the meaning of the revealed word of God.
By “religion” is meant Christianity.To most of us in the west, the other faiths are known only vaguely.