Although he is “the least amongst the sons of mankind,” Dr. Alaric Naudé was “impelled to write against the apostasies and heresies” so that Christian believers may “guard themselves” against the heresies of transgender theology, he says.
On Heresies: The Modern Gnosticism of Queer Theology is a “short book,” a pilgrim’s letter of warning. A devout Christian living in South Korea, Naudé calls the Queer Studies view of scripture “corrupted and demonic,” for he recognizes ancient lies.
“The Gnostics of old sought to bind the Holy Scriptures to the pagan philosophies of Plato, Pythagoras and Aristotle and further with the magic of the Hellenistic system and with that of Egypt, which is itself linked to the mysteries of Babylon,” Naudé writes.
Historians of esoteric ideas agree that Judaism and early Christianity encountered Gnosticism and Hermeticism, the binary and trinary forms of magical thinking, in the metropolitan m…
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