As for Gnostic views, I tend to lean toward a more Sethian angle, although I’m not entirely married to it since I also hold pro-natal views.
We are literally in telestial hell. Lucifer (in the Mormon sense) plays a certain demiurgic role and actually is hellbent on depriving all of mankind of free will. Having a functioning bullshit detector is the difference between salvation and damnation. Everything is cyclical until the End with a capital E; churches are legitimate until they corrupt, and then illegitimate until they redeem. The forces of the Devil, Lucifer, the Demiurge, or whatever other name you prefer, are arrayed against us. And right now, today, the Mormon Church is one of the major countervailing forces against this, and no amount of ridicule or public castigation will change this. So stockpile your rations and your ammunition cleave to your family and get ready, because shit’s about to get real.
Welcome to the War.