it was Bob Price who called Marcion a "Catholic" insofar he simplified the Gnostic message by removing the discourse on the number of aeons and the discourse on the divine sparks sown in the creatures. And Bob Price explains why Marcion worked so, as a great simplifier: to capture under his ombrella the more high number of anti-demiurgists.So now they can't even exist without being subsumed into a subservient role to Marcion,I see Marcion as the leader of a coalition of anti-demiurgist sects.A victim in all of this is the non-Marcionite 'heretical' tradition
ADDENDA: The result was that the last anti-demiurgists, the Cathars, inherited from Marcion the hatred against John the Baptist.
Statistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Sun Jan 26, 2025 12:51 pm