>>23351933>The outer world is kind of an illusionThat sounds a little gnosticism.
>essentially no creatorIf there is no creator, then matter is eternal, with no beginning and no end, so in some sense you're making the material world into a god, which is a problem because how do you explain the non material? Truth, love, logic, our minds are not material, yet we know they exist. Where did they come from?
I'm not here to get into a fight, just gently pointing out some inconsistencies I see.
Yes, there's a lot of fake "christianity", but if you put some effort into studying early church history, it's easy to separate wheat from the chaff.