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Examining the space with new eyes, they discovered images of mushrooms and mind-altering plants all over the Basilica. Intrigued, Dr. Rush spent seven years researching and reflecting on the profound effects hallucinogens had on the founding of all three major Western religions. He concluded that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are political constructions evolving out of the use of not only Amanita muscaria, but a plethora of mind-altering substances. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFailed God: Fractured Myth in a Fragile World\u003c\/i\u003e re-examines the scriptural stories of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as told in the Bible and Qur'an and reveals them as concocted mythical charters stemming from drug-induced romps with the super-natural. 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