Better put in a year’s supply.
Posted on 10/19/2023 8:59:08 PM PDT by Morgana
In a world where boundaries and definitions are stretched to unrecognizable limits, a congregation of ex-Mormons has outdone itself in an unprecedented display of spiritual anarchy. Stepping far away from previously blasphemous Mormon roots, they’ve founded a “church” where their sacrament is not the bread and wine symbolizing Christ’s sacrifice, but psychedelic mushrooms.
Yes, you read that correctly. They call themselves the “Divine Assembly,” trading in pews and hymnals for bean bags and trip guides. These spiritual “adventurers” claim they are communing directly with the divine while they’re tripping, but the only thing they are communing with is the surreal result of a mind-altering substance—and possibly demons.
So what’s their modus operandi? Is it solemn prayer? Bible study? Far from it. These so-called “worship services” would make even a rank heretic cringe. Their setting of choice is not the sanctuary but the basement of a swingers club—apparently, the ideal location to experience the divine. Yes, that is the level of absurdity we’ve reached.
And who is leading this illustrious gathering? None other than Steve Urquhart, a former Republican state senator, who abandoned the halls of legislation for the haze of hallucination. Urquhart contends that he was introduced to something divine through these psychedelic experiences. One can only wonder, what Scripture did he turn to for that revelation? Oh yeah, none. It was the demon speaking through the shrooms.
These clowns argue that they can do this because, religious freedom and stuff. Because nothing says “religious freedom” like breaking the law and getting high on illicit drugs. In a stroke of genius—or irony—they’ve identified a loophole. If you call it a church and say it’s a sacrament, you can dodge the law. God bless America!
But the question remains, is this about spirituality, or is it just an elaborate scheme to escape the clutches of the law? One member candidly states that if mushrooms were legal, she wouldn’t be a part of this “church” or any church. A candid confession that removes the facade of religious devotion.
The “Divine Assembly” claims to have more than 5,000 members. What does that say about our society? Are they shooting for “Divine Assembly Nationalism”? Are we so desperate for spiritual experiences that we are willing to turn to fungi for answers? To shun millennia of religious doctrine and tradition for a psychedelic shortcut to “enlightenment”?
At the end of the day, the Divine Assembly is nothing more than a symptom of a society that has lost its moral and spiritual compass. Masked under the guise of religious exploration, this farcical “church” is an affront to genuine faith and a blatant mockery of sacred Christian rites. They would be wise to remove the name of Christ and His bride from their lips altogether, as it will go much easier for them on the day of judgment.
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Reminds me of the Zion Coptic Church in Miami, back in the late 70s, that used Ganja as their sacrament.
They found gold plates with images of certain mushroom species engraved there on.
Far out, man. Far out.
I remember learning how to cross country ski. I already knew how to downhill ski, sort of. We went to a wonderful area outside of South Lake Tahoe called Kirkwood. Some of the ‘friends’ of friends took mushrooms. Psilocybin is the official name. The idiots called it sillycibin. I declined the offers to ‘participate.’ When I figured out how to actually move well with cross country skis, I headed off. I eventually came across some of the sillycibin participants. They were in the middle of the trail, staring up at a large tree. They kept staring and staring. I decided they were just too silly and I headed onward.
Wait a minute wait a minute...were they gold plates or gold mushrooms? Or maybe gold plates with mushrooms on them?
If the federal or state government press the issue, this absurd phony church can and should be shut down and its mushroom purveyors prosecuted. The First Amendment does not endorse nontraditional, roll your own churches as a way to avoid drug laws. The Supreme Court created exemption for Native American religious use of peyote was based on a long history and well-stablished ritualistic religious use by Native Americans and is restricted to that context.
Native Americans say ...
First you took Utah ...
Now you come for our mushrooms ...
Sounds a lot better than the church I was brought up in. Guilt, shame, nuns hitting us, told we’re going to burn in a lake of fire for eternity, etc. While the head priest was molesting some of us.
Must smell bad in church from the worshipers puking up all those mushrooms all the time. Do they hose the building out occasionally?
I have had some wonderful experiences on Shrooms.
Put it on video. This should be a science/medical study of weirdness.
Did the angel Moroni find it for them?
Better put in a year’s supply.
<——same church I went to.
Magic mushroom religions are far older than Christianity. To each his own.
It was the demon speaking through the shrooms.
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End times pharmakeia arriving.
What is pharmakeia in the Bible?
https://www.gotquestions.org/pharmakeia-in-the-Bible.html
“Now you come for our mushrooms ...”
Europeans have been using them since the dawn of time. Amanita Muscaria.
But you can't read the inscription identifying the mushroom varieties in the images with the magic spectacles.
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