Perhaps you’ve heard that the Quran borrows from every belief floating around 7th century Arabic, including some gnostic texts. Perhaps you’ve seen our series looking at the pagan influences of Islam. It turns out, that is one piece of the puzzle. Islam has broad categories of influence – the pagan and the gnostic – and the Quran’s borrowings barely scratch the surface of Islam’s deep connections to gnostic thought. Taking a deep dive below the surface explains many bizarre teachings of Islam and also it’s desire for secrecy. This is the secret history the most enlightened sheikhs knows but will NEVER mention in public. @LloydDeJongh joins me live to begin our investigation into the true origins of Islam’s “pure monotheism.”Subscribe to Lloyd: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiyIXknJOnGXmnYB3UrXaHQLloyd’s file archive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BGrC1fxB-ym-ZQ64TtfYEG0vQtYCOIL6Read my vision/mission statement at http://ReasonedAnswers.comSupport me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ReasonedAnswers or SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/reasoned-answersFollow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ReasonedAnswersLike on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ReasonedAnswers/Feel free to email with any questions: thaddeus@reasonedanswers.com #Gnosticism #WhatIsIslam #Gnostic —-The video is licensed under the Create Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. You may freely share and modify this video however you see fit provided you 1) give credit by linking back to the original and 2) release any modifications under the same license. Full legal details can be found at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/