AZ Nomad wrote:

No, when I was in my mid twenties, I took a couple years to read the
Bible cover to cover. That eliminated any doubt I had as to whether it
was not, in fact, a propaganda piece.

Wasson, and now more recently, other anthropologists have gone into the
sacred space, at the sacred time, and accepted the sacred potion from
the shaman. And out of that, have had spiritual enlightenment, which,
however, makes it abundantly clear how useless force is to compel others
to think or believe a religion.

They dont go to war in the name of Jesus or anyone else. They dont hold
heresy trials, much less inquisitions, and the usual arguments of
atheism do not work with them either.

If you take 200 micrograms of LSD and dont directly experience the
divine, I dont have a problem with it. But, as the Marsh Chapel study
done at Harvard with pscilocybin suggests, that is a common reaction.

If you lack the balls to try manipulating your synapese in this way, I
do not have a problem with it, but to expound on the altered state of
consciousness without having tried a sacred potion is like listening to
a virgin try to define sex.