Just thought I'd submit this little titbit as it made me smile (especially the pic!). This article is in today's "SUN" (Britain's biggest selling tabloid newspaper) in the UK. What do you reckon?

... the Don has a book to sell, much like the Jesus Seminar people (the greatest promotional tool ever devised by members of the Jesus Seminar for their, often, near unreadable books )

The dozens of assumptions that would need to be swallowed uncritically before such a hypothesis could even be entertained boggle the mind.

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Grassaf, Eolas

Well, I think someone may have been high on drugs, but I doubt it was Moses.

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"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."-- Einstein

it would have been PSILOCYBIN.. it is a mushroom.. there have been many books written about this concept..

"The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross" by John Allegro was commissioned by the state of Israel and is considered to be pretty thorough on the subject.

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metta,
Fr. B.

I think you're full of shiitake!

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"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."-- Einstein

oh stop.. you are making me hungry for Asian cuisine..

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metta,
Fr. B.