The Ark and The Dove

Lucid High

Drudge linked to an article where some wacky researcher wants to argue that Moses and the Israelites were potheads.
I would believe this if the Bible had Moses coming down the mountain muttering jibberish...rather than one of the clearest, most effective codes of law ever presented on the planet. Sure, there are some rough spots in Deuteronomy and Leviticus...but the Decalogue seems like a pretty good rule of thumb to me.

Now, I suppose one might argue that Moses did come down muttering jibberish, and that all of the laws were really scribbled in after the fact (or that all of the miracles were scribbled in after the fact).

On the other hand, just because people can have hallucinations while on drugs...that doesn't mean that all hallucinations are drug induced.

If anything, the greatest counter-argument to this assertion is probably that the researcher himself is a pothead:

He mentioned his own experience when he used ayahuasca, a powerful psychotropic plant, during a religious ceremony in Brazil's Amazon forest in 1991. "I experienced visions that had spiritual-religious connotations," Shanon said.

Padre Pio Risen from Grave...

...in a manner of speaking.

According to The Daily Mail, his corpse has been exhumed for public display.

Apparently, the corpse has decayed but is still intact, and there are no signs of the stigmata wounds (which a CNA article indicates disappeared at his death).