A popular pastor known as Craig Gross in the UK recently stepped on the pulpit to claim that Jesus would have been cool with weed

At the moment, Gross said, Christian leaders don’t know how to talk about the plant, since many of them have absolutely no actual experience with it. (Gross himself, he said, didn’t try any drugs until he was 37.) As cannabis gains cultural and political acceptance and young evangelicals move further to the left than their parents, it seems likely that Christians, along with everyone else, will be casually vaping THC and CBD and snacking on the occasional pot chocolate. And if Christians are smoking weed, why can’t weed be Christian?

. Steve Meyers, a pastor based in Los Angeles, lauded Gross in an Instagram comment, writing, “The Church is FINALLY talking about mental health, acknowledging its validity, the importance of seeking medical treatment… Craig is not a drug dealer, he’s not evil, he’s just been on a journey and wants to start an honest conversation.” Meanwhile, in a sermon posted on Facebook on Sunday, the preacher Charlie McMahon of the SouthBrook Christian Church in Ohio—which, like many churches, helps people recover from drug addiction—came out against it.


Gross is ready for both this celebration and blowback.

For years, I had chronic migraines, he said, sometimes getting hospitalized and ending up with large medical bills. After he watched Sanjay Gupta’s CNN Weed documentary, he was intrigued, and quickly obtained a medical card in Southern California, where he was living. Cannabis soothed the pain that doctors had been unable to quell; plus, as he mentions on his site, he believes it also brought him closer to God. “Call me crazy,” he writes, “but that little green cross pointed my eyes toward the real Cross, and I finally saw it.”

Ordinary pot merchants don’t really speak his language, Gross said, and he was initially overwhelmed with the stoner verbiage. To that end, he’s spreading the gospel of cannabis, and encouraging evangelical Christians—those unfamiliar with, unsure of, or intimidated by the plant—to share their thoughts in an online forum.

“What is happening right now is what I wanted,” Gross said. “When I have a pastor friend of mine who’s off depression medicine, saying, ‘Hey, I’m hiding the marijuana, and maybe one day, Craig, I won’t have to hide it, and I won’t be fired from my job.’”

Carl Raschke, a professor of religious studies at the University of Denver, doesn’t buy what he called a “gimmick.” “As far as I can tell, Gross is a kind of showman who (like many others of his ilk) tries to create a sensation around himself by positioning oneself as one who is courageously transgressing Christian ‘norms’ regarding pot,” he said in an email. “[It’s] not much different from a bunch of so-called ‘theo-bros’ from evangelical backgrounds who get together to drink beer over Bible study and pride themselves in being ‘edgy’ or even ‘naughty.’ But the general view from the outside is ‘so what?’”

Gross is accustomed to being at the center of this sort of conversation. In 2004, he and fellow pastor Mike Foster developed the bait-and-switch xxxchurch.com, an online ministry that targets unsuspecting men searching for pornography who are prompted to download programs preventing them from watching porn, a project the two of them hoped would help fight porn addiction. Gross then toured the country with the porn star Ron Jeremy, debating the adult actor about the effects of porn on our culture.

Gross wants to educate Christians about weed in a similar way. Reverend Al Sharp, a progressive Protestant pastor and the executive director of Clergy for a New Drug Policy, who advocates for the end of the war on drugs, said that he would call the Christians opposed to smoking marijuana almost exclusively “salvationists”: “Their main religion,” he said, “is one that says here are the rules you have to follow, so when you leave this world, you’ll be saved in the next world.”

“What I see right now, in the cannabis world, it reminds me of 2002, when everyone in the church told me I was so early on the issue of porn and sex,” he said. “And it’s like, I’m just reacting to the rest of the world that’s talking about this. If we want to be relevant, we have to, too.”



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When the weeds are finally separated from the wheats idiots like this who be no more. Nonsense.

A claim that Jesus
would have been cool with weed
nonsense talk i hope he is not using the bible to tie weed

Righteousness89:
Thou shall not use the Name of the Lord in vain!

We Live in a World filled with reckless folks Conciously and unconsciously heading in full speed to Destruction...

We Pray the Mercy of God fall on all! But I Tell you this Generation will Feel the Wrath of GOD.

JESUS is Coming Folks!
There is no more Time!
Repent and Believe the Gospel!

IF JESUS IS COMING THEN WHAT ARE YOU STILL DOING ON NAIRALAND


fake ass pastor

Just try this shit with the other religion I'm sure by now they would have declared bounty on your head.

Jesus is the most high....

Maybe the pastor himself is high on Colorado

What a merciful God we serve
If this was to be our brothers on the other side, by now they will be debating if the man will die by hanging or life imprisonment with hard labor.

It is well

Anything that impairs your judgement of situations and influences your actions randomly and unpredictable isnt godly for me.

CodeTemplar:
Anything that impairs your judgement of situations and influences your actions randomly and unpredictable isnt godly for me.

But to worship mammon is right?

Both are ungodly to me.

If you wanna get high, get high on the original (Holy Ghost) not the counterfeit (drugs etc.)

God bless.

jesusjnr2020:
But to worship mammon is right?

Both are ungodly to me.

U don com again wit dis ur phantom mammon worshipping claim. Lol... Jay Jay O.

CodeTemplar:
U don com again wit dis ur phantom mammon worshipping claim. Lol... Jay Jay O.

That's what the Pharisees would say so no surprises there.

You obviously have no qualms with that because that's where your heart is.

Well, I've never read any clear cut verse(s) against alcohol, gambling and weed in the Bible?


So why Crucify the man if he's on point with your Books?

jesusjnr2020:
That's what the Pharisees would say so no surprises there.

You obviously have no qualms with that because that's where your heart is.

You have switched monikers over the years unable to point out any mammon worshipping post from me. Beware of the fake Jesus wannabe. He was probably commissioned from a shrine to do this job.

AntiChristian:
Well, I've never read any clear cut verse(s) against alcohol, gambling and weed in the Bible?


So why Crucify the man if he's on point with your Books?

"Without thy mind would i do nothing"
Does that ring a bell?/ Alcohol and drugs becloud the mind.

CodeTemplar:
You have switched monikers over the years unable to point out any mammon worshipping post from me. Beware of the fake Jesus wannabe. He was probably commissioned from a shrine to do this job.

Lol!

Coming from a mammon worshipper who believes Job who was a perfect man in the sight of God, had suffered losses because he didn't tithe.

Check his threads to confirm even more of the mammon gospel he preaches.

I'm sure i'm the first person he knows that has switched monikers over the years. Such a shameless mammon-worshipper.

CodeTemplar:
"Without thy mind would i do nothing"
Does that ring a bell?/ Alcohol and drugs becloud the mind.

Someone that's blind to "Beware of covetousness" clearly stated in the Bible, but could clearly see "beware of alcohol and drugs" that wasn't clearly stated there.

That's mammon-worshipers for you.

Guy What happened to your posts?? Have they gotten to you?

CodeTemplar:
"Without thy mind would i do nothing"
Does that ring a bell?/ Alcohol and drugs becloud the mind.

Sorry, what type of wine was Jesus' first miracle about?

Too much drugs is what can be prove!

Gambling is not forbidden at all.

Alcohol and weed ain't forbidden if taken moderately within ones capacity.

That's According to the Bible.

Ephesians 5:18 says: “Do not be drunk with wine.”

While I Timothy 5:23 recommends “a little wine” for frequent ailments.