“...raises amongst ourselves no other questions than those which heresies introduce, and which make men heretics.”
-Tertullian, The Prescription Against Heretics. XIII
“It has also been a subject of remark, how extremely frequent is the intercourse which heretics hold with magicians, with mountebanks, with astrologers, with philosophers; and the reason is, that they are men who devote themselves to curious questions. "Seek, and ye shall find," is everywhere in their minds.”
-Tertullian, The Prescription Against Heretics. XLIII
I'm not sure about the mountebanks.... but otherwise I definitely fit Tertullian's "You know you're a heretic when" list. ;)
Elaine Pagels mentioned something about it in her lecture, and so I just had to look it up.
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