Talk:Hermetism and other religions

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That "many people believe" something is not good enough for Wikipedia. You need to cite reliable sources to add material to an article. Blueboar (talk) 22:37, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Considering bulldozing the entire section and re-writing it.

First of all, the article is about Hermetism, not Hermeticism. Second, Hermetism is not a branch of "Gnosticism" (itself a dubious, possibly meaningless, category)-- Hermetism is Hermetism. Two entirely different things. Third, not all forms of religiosity that we have come to call "Gnostic" were Christian.

The section just commences with a series of screamers. It itself "screams" for revision.

Neo-Gnostic Jungians charmed by the thought of Stephan Hoeller (who is not one of the leading scholars on Hermetism or the Gnostic groups) should consider consulting expert sources before glibly projecting the contents of their own minds. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GlennBecksiPod (talk • contribs) 18:50, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes and what is also very strange "representing the balance between rationality and biblical faith along with the Cathars." We are talking here about the first century so how can there be a reference to "biblical faith" and "Cathars" when both did not exist at that time!85.148.96.173 (talk) 21:44, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to fix this, removing all claims based on non-expert sources. However, as a result, the entire section is now based on one work of Roelof van den Broek. Van den Broek is of course a leading scholar both on Hermetism and on Gnosticism, but still it would be good to expand the section a little with views from other experts. Apaugasma (talk|contribs) 14:10, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]