Exegesis Part 2

From Simon Critchley at the NYT:

The core of the heresy consists in the denial of original sin: sin does not lie within us but within the world, which is not the creation of the true God but of the malevolent demiurge, whom St. Paul calls in one quasi-gnostical moment “the God of this world.” Therefore, we must see through the evil illusion of this world to the true world of the alien God. The phenomenal world is the creation of a bad God and governed over by those agents of the demiurge that the gnostics called the “archons,” the rulers or governors, those whom Dick ominously calls “Empire.” Today we might call them major corporations.