Bridge for Sale
March 7, 2008 – 12:05 am - By Anthonyhttp://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080304120710.ad7gm7i6&show_article=1
This blog is in response to this absurd article article I put a link to on top. The gist is that Moses was hallucinating on drugs when he got the ten commandments. Of course, today people will believe anything but the truth. I’d like to take a moment to look at this allegation logically.
First of all, I never read of Moses taking drugs in the Bible. It would seem ridiculous to be high on drugs and leading people through the desert to the promised land. Why on earth would anyone follow a person who has been hallucinating for 40 years?
I’d like to note the amazing things that happened while they were in the desert. When they received manna from heaven or survived poisonous snake bite, was that a hallucination? How can you nourish your body with food that isn’t there? You simply can’t. Too many things happened to Moses and the Israelites to be a hallucination.
When the Ten Commandments were first given, God spoke from the mountain like thunder and the people were scared out of their minds (Gen 20:18-21). Was this a mass hallucination? Hallucinations eminate from within one’s own brain. A shared hallucination amongst hundred’s of thousands of people is illogical and unheard of, except when talking about biblical things like Moses or Jesus’ resurrection.
This author seems to have a problem with the burning bush. He cites that as a typical hallucination of a man on drugs. The author is “Israeli” so I suppose he thinks that gives him credibility. How many people who were high could have come up with the 10 commandments? The moral law and drugs tend not to go together, in my opinion.
The world publishes this trash because people are willing to consider anything except that God is real and we are really going to be judged. The author’s problem with the scripture isn’t that he intellectually found a flaw, it’s more of a moral problem. If the scriptures are true, then our lives are not aligned with what God wants and conviction sets in. I have news for this person, God changed my life. I wasn’t high or impaired. I know He’s real and I know He lives.
One Response to “Bridge for Sale”
Benny Shanon assumes that because there were drugs on Mt Sinai, which he gives no evidence of, that Moses took them, which is again an assumption. The issue is, what does the text [scriptures] say? Second, am I to assume because there are psychedelic drugs in Jerusalem or at Benny’s university that he is taking them while making these claims about Moses. Maybe because he had previously taken drugs, that he is still taking them now. Obviously his real issue is as he himself states, he doesn’t believe in the supernatural. This puts a severe disadvantage on his conclusion and categorically limits him to where the evidence would lead in the text of the Old Testament. Suppose I state I don’t believe in cognitive psychology because it was made up by people in the 60’s who did L.S.D. and used it in religious rites. Stating this as a truth would be the same as Shanon’s statement about Moses. I mean how does he know Moses was taking drugs? Was it ‘probably yes’ or ‘probably no’ or is he himself probably on ayahuasca.
By wag on Mar 8, 2008