One God on toast, and hold the eschatology
Created | Updated Feb 10, 2002
God is inside you, according to many religions. Most mean it metaphorically, but John Marcus Allegro, a philologist (pronounced 'Loony'), meant it quite literally. In his book The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, he argued that Christianity was a mushroom cult, and the New Testament was nothing more than a set of closely-encoded secret Mushroom Texts. He didn't explain how, if the early Christians were all off their faces on hallucinogenic fungi, they were going to get straight enough to decode it again, but that's a minor detail. The major detail is that scholars have declared that God wasn't a mushroom, and it was just another example of a mad tendency to see hidden messages stored away even in the most innocuous of texts.
