Hunter S. Moses

This gave me a good chuckle this week:

In the third chapter of the biblical book of Exodus there is an account of how Moses hears the voice of God talking to him via a bush that "burned but was not consumed". According to Benny Shanon, professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the explanation for Moses' experience in the wilderness is that he was under the influence of an extract from an acacia tree that altered his perception of time and made him believe that God was speaking to him through the burning bush.
- Pete Tobias, The Guardian, Saturday March 8 2008

Could it be that Moses wasn't conversing with the almighty at all but tripping his tits off and talking to a shrub? Could it be that the stories that form the very foundation of Christianity are merely the mad rambling hallucinations of whacked out dopeheads, that religion is just a load of made up nonsense? Surely not!

As my pal Wendy quipped, Book Of Exodus: Fear & Loathing On Mount Sinai. Imagine it:

And when the LORD saw that [Moses] turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses, we're in bat country!