Roman Christianity is known for its anticipation for the return of Jesus, the end of the world, and for anticipation of great catastrophes associated with this return and judgment. Gnostic Christianity does not anticipate an angry God's intervention into the political affairs of this world. The Nazorean God of Life does not lay claim to this universe, or this earth and its affairs. This world is left to lesser beings who are more enthralled with its workings. True gnostics live respectfully in this world but are not interested in reforming or transforming it, but on transcending it and returning to a pure abode above. Earthly politics, and the fate of nations, is not the concern of either Manichaean or Nazorean. Our emphasis is upon the soul, not the flesh; on heaven, not the earth; and on the Great Foreign Strange Otherworldly Life, not the lesser archons who rule in this benighted universe of matter mixed with small degrees of light.

Once Roman Christianity made a pact with the Roman Empire, it became extricably intertwined in worldly and political affairs and abandoned its earlier positions. It then sought political intervention by its God in all earthly affairs. Gnostic Christianity has successfully alluded this scenario, except perhaps for a period of a few hundred years when the Uighar Kingdom of Tibet accepted Manichaeanism as its official state religion. But even during this phase, Gnostic Christianity was very tolerant and respectful of the rights and religions of others.