Gnosticism is a strangely insidious philosophy; one of its main tenets is that the spirit (or mind, if you will) is real and true and the body (or material world) is inherently evil. Therefore, what you 'really' are is your soul, which can never be stained by any actions of the body, so it doesn't really matter what you do with it or how you treat it. I ran across this video explicating how a number of movies seem to be pushing this 'religion', which among other stories is a basic tale reversing the Christian Creation account, with the Creator figure being an oppresser who binds spirits to the physical world and the Serpent figure being a liberator from that 'bondage'. I'm not sure that I completely buy that this is a purposeful undertaking or if it is just a natural result of various ingrained cultural assumptions. But she makes an intriguing case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBwPw7ck4eU
Andrew Klavan, the Conservative Commentator, recently made a similar argument about Wicked, but his post is somewhat longer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9B37wPSuv0
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