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“Jesus’s coming-out party in Cana was perfectly positioned, and perfectly timed, to pick up where Dionysus left off.”
― Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

“When we look at The Last Supper, maybe we’re not looking at Christianity’s founding event. Maybe we’re getting a glimpse of the mysterious religion that was practiced by Plato, Pindar, Sophocles, and the rest of the Athenian gang. And just maybe this is how our identity crisis comes to a dramatic end: with a psychedelic plot twist.”
― Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

“The Bacchae left behind a thick trail of clues that we will begin exploring later in this book. Clues that lead to a magical version of Jesus: equal parts natural healer, initiator of mysteries, and concoctor of drugged wine. Unknown to many faithful today, it’s a version that places the founder of Christianity in the kind of detailed historical context that would have been self-evident to the earliest generations of Greek-speaking paleo-Christians.”
― Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

“Without the wine, there is no Dionysus. And without the Eucharist, there is no Christianity.”
― Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name