Mandean Genocide
Save the Gnostics
The Mandeans are the only surviving Gnostics from antiquity, cousins of the people who produced the Nag Hammadi writings like the Gospel of Thomas, a work that sheds invaluable light on the many ways in which Jesus was perceived in the early Christian period. The Mandeans have their own language (Mandaic, a form of Aramaic close to the dialect of the Babylonian Talmud), an impressive body of literature, and a treasury of cultural and religious traditions amassed over two millennia of living in the southern marshes of present-day Iraq and Iran.
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No the United States did not set out to eradicate the Mandeans but they feckin nearly have.
There are some very strong-willed survivors amongst the Mandean community. They're spread across the world at the moment. I live in hope they wont die out.
It's hard to say what those who insisted on war in Iraq truly set-out to do, but it clearly isn't what they've owned-up to.
The world could learn from the Mandeans, and Gnostics of all stripes, if only it would.
Sad, utterly.
Yeah I've been left fairly gnostic myself. Its certainly the only thing related to Christianity with the right feeling about it.
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