I gotta say: well written, madame. As a completely non-militant gnostic something-or-other, I've wanted to ask these same questions and make similar assertions for a long time. Unfortunately, the pragmatic side of me knows the people I want to grab and shake the most while doing so would simply shrug it off and use it as another excuse to call me crazy, so it would be a wasted effort. So I don't really bother, I just keep things quiet and hold my cards close to my chest (since I'm thinking in card-playin' terms right now).

But sacrificing jelly beans sounds like a nice, happy, easy thing to do as a devotional. At least killing those jelly beans isn't involved.