John Marco Allegro (1923–1988), a British philologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar.
Allegro argued that Christianity did not originate from a historical Jesus of Nazareth but rather from a clandestine fertility cult centered on the ingestion of the psychoactive Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) mushroom. He claimed that the New Testament is a coded, mythological record of this cult’s rituals. The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross PDF- Unveilin...
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