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Otherwise, they're not going to be able to appeal to these people in these places that they're trying to spread Christianity to.

they're trying to take care of guys.

The teams are doing what they need to, but the new science is coming out that, you know, naturally doing that stuff isn't good for you, which it's, you know, it's, we kind of always knew that, but now we're, we're kind of proven that unfortunately.

But what this book argues is it takes it a step further, and it argues that in ancient Greece, one of the popular religions at the time, the cult of Dionysus,

So it's not just, it's, it's not just what's actually happening to you.

There's a new term for this overall condition called operator syndrome, which is super easy to look up.

was using a psychedelic sacrament.

So they were using a bread, a wine, whatever their sacrament was, and it had a psychedelic substance in it.

Now they have medical journals and everything on it.

And essentially it's, it's,

when you're putting your body under constant stress and having these things happen to your head at the same time, it's taking a toll on every part of you.

And so early Christianity, how were they going to be able to compete if these people were literally experiencing God in the woods?

It's taking a toll on your hormones, on the way your brain works, and it's doing a lot of bad things.

You can't just tell somebody to come to church.

That's not really an option.

So the book goes on to argue that early Christianity used a psychedelic sacrament.

And then guys end up with not just traumatic brain injuries, but other things that are hard to track.

So the blood of Christ, the wine that you would typically drink,

Like I said,

trying to track the hormones, muscular skeletal injuries, like just everything throughout the body that's a cause of this stuff, lead in the blood.