An Israeli researcher says that Moses could have been on hallucinogenic drugs when he had that little convo on Mount Sinai with god, as certain drugs were often used in religious ceremonies back in the day.

That makes more sense than supernatural explanations. It would be like basing your life philosophy on something someone stoned out of their mind said whilst staring at their hands in the corner of a room at a party. ‘Duuuude, if people, could…like…just… be , you know? Like…everything would be cool if dude’s didn’t, like, want other dudes’ stuff…and, like, didn’t bang other dudes’ girls, and shit.’

That’s fitting, really, because in Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast Lewis Wolpert talks about how LSD and similar drugs makes people have religious experiences.

And it’s great that today’s biggest militaristic proponents of rigid order and no fun are worshipping the revelations of a dirty hippie who sat on a mountain and took some peyote.

I suppose we’re lucky that he didn’t come down the mountain and say: I’ve seen God and he’s a big pink elephant!

[This is a post from a previous blog. Original post date: 19.03.08]