{"id":8505,"date":"2003-01-07T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/1969\/12\/31\/higher-biblical-criticism\/"},"modified":"2003-01-07T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-08T00:00:00","slug":"higher-biblical-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/01\/higher-biblical-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Higher&quot; Biblical Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>Jesus was almost certainly a cannabis user and an early<br \/>\nproponent of the medicinal properties of the drug, according to a study of<br \/>\nscriptural texts published this month. The study suggests that Jesus and his<br \/>\ndisciples used the drug to carry out miraculous healings. <\/p>\n<p>..&#8221;There can<br \/>\nbe little doubt about a role for cannabis in Judaic religion,&#8221; Carl Ruck,<br \/>\nprofessor of classical mythology at Boston University said.<\/font> [<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,3604,869273,00.html\"\ntarget=_blank>Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Mythology professor, well at least that is<br \/>\nconsistent with this new wacko myth. This guy probably did too much research on<br \/>\nthe <font color=#000000>&#8220;medicinal properties of the drug&#8221; and thought<br \/>\n<\/font>the picture of the guy on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zigzag.com\/\"\ntarget=_blank>ZIG ZAG<\/a> cigarette papers was Jesus. This would fit in nicely<br \/>\nwith the Jesus Seminar&#8217;s explanation of the miracle of the loaves and fishes as<br \/>\nthe miracle of sharing. Jesus gave everyone the munchies causing them to share<br \/>\nthe food. Well, you got to love professors at Catholic universities for their<br \/>\ninventiveness. How does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterkreeft.com\/\">Peter Kreft<\/a><br \/>\nput up with this nonsense at Boston College?<\/p>\n<p><font\ncolor=#ff3366>Update<\/font>: Oops, I really should look closer. <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/darkoctober618.blogspot.com\/\" target=_blank>dylan<\/a> points out:<br \/>\n<font color=#3333ff>No skin off Kreeft&#8217;s nose. Professor Ruck is a few miles<br \/>\ndown the street at BU (not BC)<\/font>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus was almost certainly a cannabis user and an early proponent of the medicinal properties of the drug, according to a study of scriptural texts published this month. The study&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}