As church worship falls worldwide, innovative ideas surface

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https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017 ... r-colorado

Behold: this group called the Church of Cannabis is led by a former evangelist. Where did he go wrong?

... And then there’s Lee: a former Bible quiz champion, raised in a strict evangelical Christian home, he has the credentials of a preacher if not the look: bushy hipster beard and long messy hair, dark bags under his eyes and the whiff of old smoke on his shirt. It feels more like the start of an AA meeting than a spiritual encounter. But then he starts to speak.

“Being an elevationist [the term they’ve coined for the theology of the new church] means being an explorer,” Lee begins. “Our spiritual journey is one of self-discovery, not one of dogma. We believe there is no one-path solution to life’s big questions. ...

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Idol worship.

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I have no idea what I'm looking at. This is what the Protestant reformation has done to souls.

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It looks dangerously blasphemous to me.

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Good observation, Justice. Once the rebellion against God and Church authority starts, it keeps going on a downward trajectory.
This is unbelievably repellent, isn't it ?

To think that a Yale graduate started it ~

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Colorado must be falling apart entirely. If only those horrendous laws could be rolled back, and have that noxious thing outlawed forever, everywhere !

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