Reply #81: History of Christianity is a summer beach read for all the good stuff:

[rosesaylavee]

intrigue, revenge, sex, betrayal. I think, from the standpoint of history and the lives that have been lost in the "name of God", that it was unfortunate but not too surprising that of all the Christian sects organized 2000 years ago, the Roman Catholics were the most successful (in terms of numbers converted) of all of them. A tad problematic that they based their organization on that bloody little Roman Empire crowd's politics...

Gnostics didn't have a chance.