Well, they differ from pagans, who worship the world (generally speaking). I'll have to read up about the Cathars, but I see your point, and I think you might be correct, at least with regard to the current anti-natalist (child-free) zeitgeist. It is as if many want this to be the end of the line - for themselves and for the rest of us. Leaving the world of the demiurge in a kind of group euthanasia.

Some of the early Rosicrucians worshiped the world because they saw God in everything. I rather think the Gnostic element came from fear of the Church authorities at the time - conflating them perhaps with the Demiurge?

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