The problem is that "gnostic" really has no meaning. Absolutely no one knows if a god exists or not. There's no intellectual basis for making such a claim. At best, one can say they really, really, really believe that a god exists or does not exist but that's not knowledge, it's belief. Therefore, "gnostic" is a null set if you take it to mean having knowledge and everyone is, by definition, "agnostic". The only other real usage of the term might come with the availability of knowledge, can someone actually find evidence that a god exists or not. If that's the definition then I would be a gnostic because not only do I think that anything real can have evidence for it's existence, I'd absolutely have to have that evidence before I'd believe it existed. Because I don't have any evidence for the existence of any god, I'm an atheist.
There is nothing demonstrably true that religion can provide mankind that cannot be achieved as well or better through secular means.
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