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“There is nothing new under the sun,” says the Book of Ecclesiastes (1:9), and that includes today’s fashionable trans madness. While men mutilating themselves and taking hormones and calling themselves women may be a new aspect of this phenomenon, men have been donning dresses and prancing around pretending to be women from time immemorial. And now a detransitioner, a woman who spent several years pretending to be a man before awakening from her delusion, has rooted the trans phenomenon in another extremely old idea: Gnosticism, an ancient religious belief that derided the material world as evil and is combated in the New Testament.
Estella Suarez-Hamilton, who began pretending to be a man as a teenager, explained Wednesday that at the heart of the trans fad is a desire to escape from reality: “Oftentimes, people are looking for an escape. There’s a lot of escapism in my generation, and this is especially true with the trans ideology. It was a distraction that I needed, to not look at the parts of my life and the relationships in my life that I was not succeeding in, and were falling apart. I was looking for escape — and the political, kind of spiritual, aspects of trans ideology, when they’re combined with the online [community], that offers a type of escapism. A lot of times people will say that it’s a ‘cult,’ and in a way, that could be applied, but I think a more accurate term is a ‘cyber sect.’” This sect has surprisingly ancient roots, in an old version of escapism.
“If you are thinking about how to describe the sect,” Suarez-Hamilton continued, “it is very much connected to, like, the modern Gnostic principles. This is a syncretic cyber sect of modern Gnosticism, and I love how complicated it sounds, because the trans community loves language, and they love to complicate language to the nth degree. So, I think that this term is just very — from my experience — very accurate to explain what I went through, that’s what I think happened, and that’s how I can articulate it.” A syncretic cyber sect of modern Gnosticism is actually a remarkably apt term.
Gnosticism was a secretive and multifaceted movement that was based on its adherents gaining access to a secret knowledge, or gnosis in Greek. This secret knowledge involved the idea that the physical world was the source of evil: an evil god had trapped the souls of human beings inside material bodies and a material world, and that was the reason why evil and suffering existed there.
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Jack Reynolds says
The Attention Hounds
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The size of the LGTBQ2S+ alphabet just keeps growing, and it requires a considerable effort to keep track of the latest additions.
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The term Attention Hounds covers a good deal of ground, and their most annoying characteristics. It also helps to differentiate ‘Them’ from the ordinary Gay people who have always been around and always will be.
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There is also a hidden advantage to use of this term. Many of Them are Exhibitionists and they will hate having that characteristic high-lighted. Give it a try … it works.
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Westman says
“..syncretic cyber sect of modern Gnosticism..”
Would this have application?:
“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof…” 2 Tim 3
somehistory says
One of my favorite Scriptures because it fits so well what we see around us and lets us know, at the same time, that these things are on the way out.
Thanks for posting some of Paul’s words to young Timothy.
somehistory says
Ever since man has been here, there have been those who have tried to escape reality; in doing this, they must deny the Truth of the matter. Human life is full of difficulties, trails and challenges. Some people don’t want to face these.
Secret societies, where the members *know* things the rest don’t, are just a way to make themselves feel special, when they must realize they are not. Denial is big business.
James Lincoln says
The transgender ideology actually claims dominion over nature itself.
And this is incompatible with Christianity.