The End of a Road

Résumé du livre

"In The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross John M. Allegro shocked the world with his theory that Christianity springs directly from an ancient Near East fertility cult founded on sex rites and the worship and eating of the phallic hallucinogenic fungus Amantia muscaria. IN this companion volume, which is every bit as revolutionary as its predecessor, the author explores the shattering implications of his findings. If the New Testament gospels contain not universal precepts of love and forgiveness but rather codified expressions of essentially pagan incantations and beliefs, we are at the end of a road. Twentieth century man is on his own, no longer able to swallow the Church's teachings whole nor to shift all important moral responsibilities onto the shoulders of a mythical Deity. In the light of this sobering belief John Allegro examines our attitudes to economics, art, sex, social ethics, war and the education of our children from the standpoint of one convinced that mankind needs a new, pragmatic and humanist philosophy, free of the misleading trappings of religious obscurantism, if we are to achieve our full potential or even survive."-Publisher.