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Wild.

Have you ever heard of John Marco Allegro's book, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross?

No.

It's a book that he wrote after he was one of the people that was contracted to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls.

It was like a 14-year job where they were deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls.

And he was the only one on the committee that was agnostic.

He was an ordained minister, but through his studying of theology—

He started becoming agnostic because he recognized that there's just too many religions and too many parallels and like what's the real religion and root of this all or origin rather and root of this all.

So he wrote this book after 14 years where he – I'm going to sort of paraphrase but –

He thought that the entire Christian religion was based on the consumption of psychedelic mushrooms and fertility rituals and that this was what it was all about.

And I believe the book – because I've said this before, but I need to know it's true.

Was the book bought up by the Catholic Church?