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Lewis Ungit
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The Return of the Dragon : The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies
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The Return of the Dragon: The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies
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“Let’s consider the Greek Septuagint’s rendering of Deuteronomy 18:10: “Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in pharmakous.” Notice that statement about human sacrifice. The Bible has several links between human sacrifice (widely practiced by ancient religions that did use drugs as part of their worship, as we saw in the previous chapter) and pharmakeia.”
― The Return of the Dragon : The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies
― The Return of the Dragon : The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies
“We are so conditioned in modern society to assume that “spiritual” equals “good” that we never ask what ancients would have asked: “which spirit?”
― The Return of the Dragon : The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies
― The Return of the Dragon : The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies
“Let’s start with Exodus 22:18. The English translation is: “You shall not allow a sorceress to live.” The word sorceress is pharmakous — a conjugation of pharmakeia — in Koine Greek. The translation using the Friberg Lexicon would be rendered something like this: “Do not allow one who prepares drugs for ritual purposes to live.” And suddenly what the Bible says about drugs becomes much clearer. The Bible is saying that the mixing of drugs and religion is so bad that the Israelites should not even let someone live who does it!”
― The Return of the Dragon : The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies
― The Return of the Dragon : The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies
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