@trishalynn@mastodon.sandwich.net
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2026-05-06 15:51 UTC
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz Ah, just looked up Gnosticism in Wikipedia and AFAICT, Gnosticism and Agnosticism are not related at all. Also, the concepts behind agnosticism but not the word itself was also recorded in Greece, China, and India before the Common Era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism#History
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2026-05-06 19:54
@trishalynn@mastodon.sandwich.net > Gnosticism and Agnosticism are not related at all That's not quite right, as they definitely share a common root; https://www.etymonline.com/word/agnostic https://www.etymonline.com/word/Gnostic > the concepts behind agnosticism but not the word itself was also recorded ... before the Common Era Probably true of every concept anyone thinks was invented by western philosophers ; ) "The West" is basically a cargo cult version of classical Rome/ Greece. (1/2)