Monday, June 08, 2020

A soothing odor?

CANDIDA MOSS: Was God a Stoner? Excavations at a 2,700-year-old temple in the Negev desert have uncovered a residue familiar to many a pothead (The Daily Beast). I had assumed that it was the worshippers who were getting high. That still seems right. But Professor Moss makes the case that the rite assumed that God participated too.

Background here.

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