Article: Moses must have been high on drugs

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The key passage:

"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.

The author is definitely grappling with this strange reality--the account of Moses is too specific and too historically rooted to be made up or legend.

I offer this evidence that he wasn't on drugs: a) the law of Moses is really, really long. That's a very extended hallucination. And it's really, really mundane listing out specific, strict regulations that have deadly consequences b) I've never heard of someone having a spiritual/drug experience and coming out of it with very exclusive views of God and his justice. They always see a cosmic, spirit being who wants them to be happy and know that there aren't any rules except 'be happy'.