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"Gnosticism presents a distinction between the highest, unknowable God and the demiurgic “creator” of the material. Several systems of Gnostic thought present the Demiurge as antagonistic to the will of the Supreme Being: his act of creation occurs in unconscious semblance of the divine model, and thus is fundamentally flawed, or else is formed with the malevolent intention of entrapping aspects of the divine in materiality. Thus, in such systems, the Demiurge acts as a solution to the problem of evil."

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To be honest I think the idea may have come to me from Halo 4: (LOL)

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The Didact; the most powerful enemy of the game, seems to reflect the above Gnostic viewpoint. The whole game is about stopping the Didact from using the "composer" on Earth, as it would end up destroying civilization.