Emil Cioran on Marcion
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 9:12 am
By being taxed with the functions of father, creator, and general manager, the official god was exposed to attacks that, inevitably, proved his undoing, Who knows how long he might have lived if only people had heeded Marcion, of all heresiarchs the one who stood foremost in the fray against the conjuring away of evil and who did more than any other to promote the glory of the evil god, by hating him so staunchly. There are scarcely any examples of a religion that, at its debut, bungled so many chances. We would undoubtedly be quite different today if the Christian era had been inaugurated with anathemas hurled against the creator, for permission to set upon him would surely have lightened our burden and rendered the past two millennia less oppressive. The Church, by refusing to incriminate him or to adopt doctrines that would condemn him, was necessarily resorting to slyness and falsehood.
(Emil Cioran, The Evil Demiurge)
..or why we shouldn't wonder at all why a religion had to rise who preached hate against the creator god.