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Even more notable than the Manicheans and Albigensians were the people that St. Paul was warning Timothy about specifically – the Gnostics. The Gnostics viewed the material universe as evil, as it was created by the Demiurge (a godlike being), and shunned goods such as marriage and eating for that reason.