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| Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher | |
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| Topic Started: Mar 6 2008, 01:28 PM (395 Views) | |
| Atenist_Zealot | Mar 6 2008, 01:28 PM Post #1 |
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High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week. Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy. "As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don't believe, or a legend, which I don't believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that joined Moses and the people of Israel under the effect of narcotics," Shanon told Israeli public radio on Tuesday. Moses was probably also on drugs when he saw the "burning bush," suggested Shanon, who said he himself has dabbled with such substances. "The Bible says people see sounds, and that is a clasic phenomenon," he said citing the example of religious ceremonies in the Amazon in which drugs are used that induce people to "see music." He mentioned his own experience when he used ayahuasca, a powerful psychotropic plant, during a religious ceremony in Brazil's Amazon forest in 1991. "I experienced visions that had spiritual-religious connotations," Shanon said. He said the psychedelic effects of ayahuasca were comparable to those produced by concoctions based on bark of the acacia tree, that is frequently mentioned in the Bible. |
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| Davian | Mar 16 2009, 12:29 AM Post #2 |
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Clearly. The god of Moses repeatedly condoned rape. Zechariah 14:1-2, Numbers 31:7-18, and Judges 21:10-24 being just a few examples. Only someone on a bad trip could mistake these passages for divine commandments. |
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| religionscholar | Apr 28 2010, 10:48 AM Post #3 |
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First of all where is the relevancy that sounds more like just an attempt to attack Judaism. Zechariah 14:1-2 This verse actually says that the inhabitants of Jerusalem i.e. Jews will be raped it is meant to be a prophetic account which was actually written a number of decades after the event but read as if it were written beforehand. Numbers 31:7-18 This passage does not suggest that rape occurred rather it was customary in the social climate of the area and time to identify individual women based on the status of their virginity as virgins were considered children and non-virgins adults and thus deserving of a lesser punishment. Judges 21:10-24 Notice actually that taking wives from the conquered people was a warning that Moses gave the Israelites and yet in this verse they violate that warning. Judaism does not condone this act but rather vilifies it. |
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| Thomas,88 | Dec 21 2011, 06:08 PM Post #4 |
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Impossible to know if moses was high on some bronze age magic mushrooms or not., but he was a monotheist, and most likely knew of the Aten, and our faith. I may not agree with him on points of theology, but i certianly respect him. |
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