[Big Papa Goat]

The Gnostics thought the human soul was a prison that needed to be escaped for the spirit to get to heaven. All the Christians ever said is that we're sinful and need to (and can be) forgiven. Saying the human psyche is a prison for an imaginary spirit is probably a bit more ridiculous than saying that human beings have an inevitable tendency to be sinful assholes. Also, it's a bit more dangerous, christians tend to just convert people to the belief in Christian grace, Gnostics have a tendency to convert people to 'spiritually' pure versions of humans. Kind of like converting people into aryans by killing all the jews and poles and etcetera. Or into communists by killing all the kulaks.