I read Ezekiel once and I thought how can anyone read this and not wonder WTF was this guy on?
WEll, isn't the proof of the existence of god attributed to Ezekiel's claim to have seen god in the clouds. Works for me. How can anyone doubt??
Beyond twisted, Ezekiel seems to have had access to some serious hallucinogens. Eating the scroll is an appetizer for the following passage, one of my personal favorites.
βHer sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister. She too lusted after the Assyriansβgovernors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men. I saw that she too defiled herself; both of them went the same way.
βBut she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans portrayed in red, with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea. As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust. When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister. Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.
Ezekiel 23:11-21 (NIV)
The Isle of Patmos, where John wrote the Book of Revelations is also known for its hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Yeah..those Old Testament prophets may have had some great magic mushroom action going on.