Enemies.com
Title
The Gnostic Friends Network Cartoon Art Guide to the Gnostic Gospels
Description
Welcome to the Gnostic Friends Network, online home of occult artist & writer Rev. Illuminatus Maximus.
Conceived in 1996 as an educational resource for questioning Christians, the GFN today serves primarily as a portal for the exploration and analysis of issues in early Gnosticism, especially as these relate to contemporary ethics, science, and visual culture.
Vision Statement
1. To challenge the hegemony of the Christian metanarrative
2. To facilitate the dissemination of the gnostic countermyth
3. To educate, equip and entertain!
Languages
English
Contact
Media Mentions
- Certains n'hésitent pas à parler de la Bête et du mal. Pour avoir une idée du phénomène (très répandu) que nous évoquons, il suffit de visiter par exemple le site http://www.enemies.com. - Jacques Dufresne and Josette Lanteigne, "Rapport-synthèse sur les aspects culturels des inforoutes," March 22, 1998
- The Gnostic Friends Network is a virulent anti-Christian outpouring, headlined Jesus Says Love Your Enemies. It takes the Gnostic belief that this world was the work of the Devil and turns it into a charter for Devil-worshipping that has the shrill sensation seeking of a latter-day Aleister Crowley. - Peter Stanford, "The secret world of the new Gnostics" , The Independent, March 18, 2004
- ...an excellent example of the extent to which Gnosticism has infused the public domain...the Gnostic Friends Network... contains some astounding artwork by “Rev Max,” the Reverend Maximus Illuminatus. On this website are... original, graphic, powerful, sexually explicit and often shocking scenes that incisively and perceptively rework Gnostic (and Christian) themes. Through the medium of graphic art, Rev Max engages in an intertextual dialogue with ancient texts AND contemporary culture. To me, this intertextuality is the larger context for... Eco’s novel (Foucault's Pendulum), The Matrix – and other recent films. Rev Max’s art calls for us to reexamine the CULTURAL RECEPTION of contemporary Gnosticism AND the ways in which Gnosticism is translated into popular media, ESPECIALLY VISUAL CULTURE. - Frances Flannery-Dailey, "GNOSTICISM AND THE ARTS" , National Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature; Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Section, November 14, 2004
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External Links
- Alexa: Enemies.com
