I saw this comic strip today and thought it was worth sharing. Click on the image to see a larger version of it.
Transcript:
Priest: Now lets all recite the Nicene Creed. We believe in …
Young girl: But what about the Gnostic tradition that long pre-dated the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD?
Priest: Gnostic ideas are heretical and you should not be thinking about them. Ideally, all such Gnostic documents should be destroyed.
Young girl: Like any that may have existed at the great library at Alexandria in Egypt?
Priest: It can’t be proven that the Church had anything to do with that.
Young girl: Well its (sic) a good thing that some of those documents were hidden and later found in caves around the Dead Sea…*
*Note: the Nag Hammadi library wasn’t discovered in or around the Dead Sea. The documents discovered there were collectively called the Dead Sea Scrolls, and they likely represent the belief system of the Essenes, a splinter group of militant Jews. (Some now believe these might have been the collective work of the Sadducees.) The Nag Hammadi library, however, was found at none other than Nag Hammadi, Egypt, also known as Chenoboskion. Perhaps the writer of this cartoon got them confused because both libraries were discovered by someone named Mohammed.
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