Not quite right to say they were a break from mainstream church as a)there was no mainstream church or orthodoxy to be maintained at that point - despite some early church fathers and churches attempts - the gnostics were part of a huge range of competing churches and positions b) there were many sorts of gnostics and gnosticisms (and many many other now-cracked sounding early christianities that were further out to lunch and c) they weren't really christians - instead being a mixture of nearly all the beliefs common in that time and in that period.
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I don't think Superman has the ability to be in multiple places at once, so on that basis alone it makes sense for him to team up with Bats. Plus I always thought that Batman's "power" was in being crazy prepared, and never going against a foe without having at least some kind of knowledge of what he's facing. Superman isn't stupid, but he's powerful enough to bulldoze his way through most challenges, whereas Batman has to rely a lot more on his wits. Point being, comic book characters are a hell of a lot more consistent than you seem to be giving credit for. The people who write stories for them as well as the people who read about them all tend to be massive fucking nerds, and if there is one things nerds are good at and love doing, it's picking at logical inconsistencies involving beloved characters. Whereas theology is not so much about telling a coherent and engaging story than it is about other things.
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I remember (hmm, when I was around 12/13, before I gave up on the stuff) being scared of not garnering allah's approval, like kind of stockholm syndrome shit, but I never found the idea of hell to actually be scary. I thought I was sinful and bad, but the idea of burning in eternal damnation didn't scare me, I just thought I had a flawed character.
People talk about how mundane heaven is in the abrahamic faiths, but actually hell (flippantly perhaps) just reads like internet hardman to me. and thats not even going into the historicity of the concept.
I mean so many people around me are actually scared of this shit and I'm like, yeah even if the qur'an/bible is the inerrant word of the absolute, i still don't find hell that tormenting, if anything given that the majority of people I know probably won't achieve the kingdom of God, heaven sounds more like my idea of torture. am i missing some great eureka moment here or what?
or am i just
