manichaeism

They fall into the same platonic manichaeism: the world is a mess and if only The One Pure Way were followed, we'd be good.

The morality play was invented by Christians, by the time that happened, Manichaeism was long gone.

Nobody gets ahead when you only look for scapegoats and with Manichaeism as a policy.

St Augustine started his religious journey as with Manichaeism and it certainly influenced his thinking and writing which in turn influenced later Christian thinkers.

I believe that the HN crowd is educated enough not to fall for cheap manichaeism.

Gotta love the manichaeism here, makes everything so much simpler.

The Christian practices here in the Balkans had (maybe still have) a lot of Manichaeism involved in them which people further West might not call that Christian to begin with.

Muslims did restrict zoroastrians and manichaeism.

> Manichaeism teaches an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness.

As I said, lots and lots of Manichaeism beliefs around these parts of the continent (in many, many folk tales the Devil is on the same level as God), Middle Ages or not, it's quite fascinating.

Traditionally it has been viewed as the product of an individual (drawing on some elements of the prevailing religion) just like Christianity, Manichaeism or Buddhism, though details of the founder's biography are now lost to time.

I find it interesting that Manichaeism is used as a synonym for dualism despite the fact that dualistic cosmologies predate Manichaeism by at least a millennium--Zoroastrianism relies heavily on dualistic cosmology, and probably exists in a similar form in the older Indo-Iranian religion that Zoroastrianism (and Hinduism, for that matter) is based on.

The manichaeism of early language discussions can be set aside and, rather than fighting about which language is "the right thing" we can talk about which language feature(s) is/are the right thing for this particular problem.

Not all political statements are "black" or "white", "right" or "wrong" (Manichaeism style), and there are a lot of gray areas sometimes, and everybody has something to complain about on Twitter.

For example, in what German scholars of early 20th century came to call "Iranian Gnosticism" (in reference to Manichaeism [1]) it is in fact the Father of Light that "sacrifices his sons" as 'food for daemons' so that the battle between Light and Darkness is taken to 'their turf'.

Manichaeism probably had a lot of influence on early Christianity including introducing dualism, but its hard to say.

I think so as in >This fundamental dualism between light and darkness, good and evil, is a central tenet of Manichaeism...

Here's where the kool-aid starts to kick in: The fact is that, contrary to what the Estonian parliamentarian said, Brazil and other countries of the so-called Global South do not have to choose between any of the sides defined in this new diplomatic Manichaeism.