Thousands of years before Christianity, secret cults arose which worshipped the sacred mushroom—the Amanita Muscaria—which, for various reasons (including its shape and power as a drug) came to be regarded as a symbol of God on earth.

When the secrets of the cult had to be written down, it was done in the form of codes hidden in folk tales.

This is the basic origin of the stories in the New Testament. They are a literary device to spread the rites and rules of mushroom worship to the faithful.

John Marco Allegro

Mots clés drugs worship jews mushrooms christ-myth christ-myth-theory historicity-of-jesus historicity-of-the-gospels essenes origin-of-christianity

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I argue that the Jesus of the Gospels is essentially a myth. The Gospels are largely fiction. They were created around the turn of the first and second century in order to give concreteness and substance to the Jesus who, as the Messiah, had appeared to Paul and his fellow apostles in ecstatic visions.

Alvar Ellegård

Mots clés myth visions jews messiah apostles jesus-myth christ-myth christ-myth-theory historicity-of-jesus historicity-of-the-gospels ecstatic-visions jewish-messiah paul-s-visions unreliable

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It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation.

Paul-Louis Couchoud

Mots clés fiction myth creation christ-myth christ-myth-theory historicity-of-jesus historicity-of-the-gospels literary-creation

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