Christian Gnosticism and their secrets the Catholic Church desperately tried to destroy The Catholic Church has in the past conducted one of their most violent campaigns against the Gnostics.  The Gnostics believed they could achieve their truth communing directly with the divine.  These ideas were very threatening to the church, so much so that they murdered entire towns where Gnostics lived and burned everything to the ground.  So the question remains: What ideas of the Gnostics that so threatened the church to the point of genocide?   Watch Graham Hancock present an excellent talk on Gnostic origins and research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62PvCXiFP-Q