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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
But if they can do that, then they aren't actually all that bad anyway. The point of the religion is that the world is terrible by following the religion they can escape it. If the world is fine then the religion is just stupid.
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Except the world is observably never fine. It is doesn't take much convincing of the pessimist to go from saying the world is flawed to the world is evil. Furthermore, whether it is stupid or not, Gnosticism did survive for a time, and Buddhism survives now.