Jake

So, yeah, I was a minigunner.

And the other one that had a huge impact on me was, it's called The Immortality Key.

That was my expertise, and that's what I worked on the whole time.

And it talks about the pagan continuity hypothesis, which is that early religions, like Christianity, had to take aspects of pagan religions to have followers.

And putting all those rounds through that gun definitely left a mark on my brain.

And then besides that, you know, knocked out a few times, normal things that I guess come with any job in the military.

So, yeah, that's kind of the conditions I was put in, and yeah.

Because

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?