In October of 2020, CNN host Michael Smerconish hosted a segment on what had to be one of the strangest topics covered by the channel: “Did Hallucinogens Play Role in the Origin of Religion?” His guest was a young lawyer and first-time author named Brian Muraresku who had just appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast, perhaps a more fitting venue for such discussions. Muraresku’s book, The Immortality Key, had just appeared on bookshelves a couple of weeks prior. An amateur sleuth who studied classics at Brown, Muraresku argues that the Christian eucharist was based on the rituals of the popular Greek mystery cults that existed when early Christianity first appeared.
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