4 March 2008
Revisionist History Re:Vision ist Nuts
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: Judaeo-Christian Values Under Attack; What's News .
The relentless march goes on to discredit religion and the reality of God and the Bible. In the academic world, hard facts are demanded unless the research is about God. Then it doesn’t matter how flimsy the argument, the premise is swallowed and enjoyed. The fact that this researcher, Benny Shanon, uses drugs himself should preclude him from being credible. Arrogance makes people tend to believe no other person could be on higher moral ground, thus the tendency is for the morally bankrupt person to drag down the hero figure to wallow together.
Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher
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, 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.
Professor Shanon’s proof? The acacia tree was frequently mentioned in the Bible and a concoction can be made from the tree to create a drug. The author sites his own visions from his use of psychotropic drugs as further proof.
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Revisionist History Re:Vision ist Nuts Says:
4 March 2008 at 11:01 am.
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Cameron Says:
4 March 2008 at 11:45 am.
This is unbelievable. Can you imagine if someone tried to pull something like this even twenty years ago? We are fast slipping into such frenzied religious hatred. This is disturbing. I guess the part that really bothers me is that this came from Hebrew University. I thought they had a great reputation. That this gets major press and people are buying it is sick.
Jan W. Says:
4 March 2008 at 12:11 pm.
I am very religious so this just breaks my heart. I hope people won’t believe it. How ridiculous for a drug user to write this.
E.E. Says:
4 March 2008 at 5:38 pm.
Benny Shanon disqualifies himself from the get go because he starts with his own prejudices. He says he doesn’t believe certain things. His mind closed. He has no empirical evidence. This shouldn’t have been given the time of day.
Nalvy Says:
4 March 2008 at 6:57 pm.
I think is ridiculous that people would believe the ramblings of a man who uses his own drug “visions” as his evidence.
There really is no hope for humanity.
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