On Mar 4, 2008, at 6:28 PM, David Hobby wrote: > William T Goodall wrote: > ... >> High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God > > William-- > > That doesn't make the experience more or less real, though.
Objectively, it makes the experience worthless, and certainly does nothing to back up the idea of an absolute god whose rules are universally applicable. To claim on one hand that some kind of god exists who is objectively, personally present in every life -- while on the other hand asserting that hallucinogens influencing the minds of "prophets" are somehow irrelevant in reference to those assertions -- is to fall into the disingenuous offense that makes religion so damned unpalatable to rationalists. To be fair, though, William: This researcher has absolutely no more evidence to back up his claims' factuality than Moses did. It's probably safest to concede that both Moses and Shanon are equally brimful of shit. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
