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In a message dated 1/9/2000 2:58:44 PM Eastern Standard Time,
RoniBarrett@aol.com writes:
<< << wasnt the bible written by monks on opium 300 years after jesus lived
or
something?
>>
The gospel was written from spoken accounts between 50 and 300 AD, and the
rest of the new testament trailed for several hundred more years. I think it
was at least 500 or 600 years before the apocalypse was written.
>>
But at the time, opium was not in major use in europe. the only widespread
drug in europe and the holy land then was lotus blossom. (it contains
niccotine and the stuff in cannabis... i dont remeber what its called... and
a few more things, has a horrible stench, and is smoked by burning the
liquid sqeezed from the blossoms.)
Jeff Barrett
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