On the surface Abraxas's website Coffee, Cigarettes, and Gnosis may appear to be religious, what with its references to Christianity and the ancient Gnostics. However, a closer look shows that its real purpose is to question orthodox Christianity at its deepest level.

The ancient Gnostics were a close rival to what became orthodox Christianity and were such a serious threat that the orthodox had them persecuted out of existence and their libraries burned. The library at Alexandria is perhaps the most famous one. What a calamity that a library that was burned is still being mourned two thousand years later! Surely, if there is a hell the guilty ones are suffering for their sin!

There probably is no hell and no justice. Not for this kind of offense against humanity. Or maybe there is. Some would say the thousand years of Dark Ages
Western Christendom was plunged into was the result of such blatant war on intellectual progress, and that humanity is just recovering what was lost. We will never know exactly what was lost. But scholars from a wide array of disciplines are working on "boring into the past," to use Abraxas's term. And people like Abraxas try to make available lists of the information.

Abraxas's website is very slow to load and definitely not the most attractive, but it contains large amounts of valuable information for the thinking seeker. It does not tell you what to think. It helps you think differently about traditional Christianity as it is preached today in the churches of the West.