DESCASCANDO (SEM DEMASIADO ESFORÇO) O "EFEITO TEMPLETON":

1) "O gnosticismo cristão dos primeiros séculos era uma corrente que considerava Jesus apenas como 'um ser puramente espiritual e divino'"

Uma corrente? Só uma?... Trabalhinhos de casa:
 

"Jesus was the son of Joseph and Mary, and was born like all other men (...) In fact they boldly taught that men could reach higher degrees of illumination than Jesus"

2) "Os gnósticos encaravam a sexualidade e a procriação como algo desprezível"

"Os gnósticos"? Todos mesmo?... Trabalhinhos de casa:

"The Borborites were inspired by Sethianism and had as a distinct feature of their rituals elements of sexual sacramentalism, including smearing of hands with menstrual blood and semen, and consumption of the same as a variant of eucharist. They were also said to extract fetuses from pregnant women and consume them, particularly if the women accidentally became pregnant during related sexual rituals"

[The Adamites] professed a sensual and a complete emancipation from the moral law. (...) They called their church "Paradise", claiming that its members were re-established in Adam and Eve's state of original innocence. Accordingly, they practiced "holy nudism", rejected the form of marriage as foreign to Eden, saying it would never have existed but for sin, lived in absolute lawlessness, holding that, whatever they did, their actions could be neither good nor bad and stripped themselves naked while engaged in common worship".

(daqui - clicar na imagem, depois, em "ver imagem", a seguir, usar a lupa)

"Epiphanes as one of the voices in early Christianity who held a positive and liberationist view of sexual pleasure, and who was among those like him who were ultimately silenced by the victorious sex-negative leadership represented by Clement of Alexandria, Tatian, Ambrose, Jerome and Augustine"

(... e nada melhor do que ir às fontes)