New Apostolic Reformation royalty Patricia King continues to show the abject debauchery and excesses of the charismatic movement, being a living avatar for all the kookiness this theology naturally excretes.
Like our favorite pink-haired princess Kat Kerr, Patricia King routinely makes trips into heaven and makes war in the heavenlies’ by rebuking this demon or the other one, and then emerging with fresh revelation from God. She’s been endorsed and promoted by Dr. Michael Brown, and the two have appeared together at probably dozens of conferences by now. While Brown would ultimately repudiate this behavior in the middle of 2010 from certain gauche personalities, he never addressed King getting high on her own supply.
This classic clip from May 1, 2008, shows King at the Toronto Airport Church, the charismatic mecca where pastor Paul Arnott created the Holy Laughter Movement and revitalized being “drunk on the glory; the inspiration for Todd Bentley in Lakeland years later. Acting like she needs to be thrown into a drunk tank, King explains she’s been ‘tokin’ the ghost’ and mainlining the blood of Jesus. This Prayer-of-Jabezian fad of ‘tokin’ the ghost’ was brought to the mainstream of charismatic consciousness by John Crowder, Benjamin Dunn, and the folk over at Red Letter Ministries (Warning, that website is a trip) a year earlier.
Known as “getting high on the most High” these ne’er-do-wells would smoke weed, or smoke literal pages from the bible, or just straight up do shrooms and then film themselves getting ‘drunk in the spirit as they attempt to have bible studies or hear and God through their consumption of the old ‘electric lettuce’, trying to marry drugs with the divine.
It’s messy, stupid stuff, but King is all in. Take a watch.
h/t Salt and Light, who we also stole the cover thumbnail from.
Deconstruction has been a hot topic in Christian circles for the past several years, as cultural currents have swept away many popular “Christian” celebrities who once claimed Christ. These apostates are branches that were never attached to the vine of Christ and have been exposed as unregenerate by the storms of life. Unfortunately, many of these apostates are also false teachers who carry away church members with their worldly philosophies and false teaching. The Apostle Paul warned the church at Colossae that they needed to be rooted in Christ, rather than the teachings of such men.
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spiritsof the world, and not according to Christ. Colossians 2:6-8
Craig Gross, a self-styled “pastor”, founded XXX Church, an anti-porn ministry that set up “church services” at pornography expos. Gross was known for his shock and awe rhetoric, a strategy that led to a “Pancakes and Porn Roadshow” to visit local churches with the same message that was presented at porn conventions. The ministry also published a flamboyant New Testament Bible entitled, “Jesus Loves Porn Stars.”
At the same time, many discernment ministries warned against the idea of a so-called church renting space at a porn convention. Such an arrangement is equivalent to a man paying for a visit to a strip club or brothel with the alleged intent of proclaiming the Gospel to the strippers and prostitutes. XXX Church is wrought with folly on so many levels. A 2013 interview between a Vice reporter and Gross revealed that while XXX Church sought to provide pornography addicts with self-help for their addictions, the teachings and convictions of Gross were not rooted in a Biblical Sexual ethic.
In early 2019 Gross departed from XXX Church and started Christian Cannabis, an online forum that marketed Cannabis products to Christians, as a tool that “makes it easier to worship”, as Pulpit and Pen reported in April 2019. The platform began with the goal of destigmatizing cannabis use amongst Christians but quickly moved to promoting a form of psychedelic Gnosticism. Orthodox Christianity promotes scripture as God’s primary revelation to man, but Christian Cannabis’ heretical cannabis track never mentions scripture. Rather the track directs you to find God within yourself through the conduit of drugs.
In a wide-ranging interview with The Bad Christian Podcast in late 2021, Gross details that while he was actively preaching against pornography as part of XXX Church, he was inviting Christians to experiment with marijuana in his home. At the same time as Gross’ Christian Cannabis launch, Gross was approaching atheists for spiritual advice on whether or not to experiment with psychedelic drugs as a means to a spiritual experience.
Between 2013 and 2019 more Christian friends of mine have been at my house trying cannabis for the very first time over dinner, having a night of laughter or whatever as Cannabis started to shift me into a softer space, started showing me discoveries about who I was.
I started meditating with it. I started listening to music and getting lost in god there’s something else here. And so when my friend Matt, you fast forward to 2019. My friend Matt sends me a book. He’s like “yeah I know you’re doing cannabis; what about psychedelics?”
And so I read the book. I’m a quick start. I read it in a night. I sent out an email to my mastermind group, “Anyone know Michael Poland?” Somebody writes back right away, “yes”. I said can you connect me. I sent him an email and said, “Hey, I’m a pastor and I’ve explored cannabis from a spiritual perspective a recreational perspective, a medical perspective, but what about psychedelics. You seem to be an atheist, but you wrote this book and you said ‘people that are spiritual have more profound experiences with psychedelics.’ What do you think about this crazy pastor exploring psychedelics from a spiritual perspective?” And he wrote back, like, “The best of luck, yes, go.”
And so within 10 days, I found somebody through a friend, another leader in this space. They say the medicine finds you once you bring it into your awareness and you start listening it will find you. So I’m not gonna name names. But I end up, yes, near Austin Texas, and I sit with somebody who used to be addicted to Heroin. I sit with somebody who’s been a guide now for several years for people, and he sat with me on a dose of MDMA with his wife as they held the space, as they sat there and journaled, and I had an eye mask, a playlist, and I was able to cry. I was able to explore, and I f****** found myself.
Christian Cannabis is merely the tip of the iceberg of Gross’ heretical exploits. Gross’ personal website contains a catalogue of projects that promote the use of psychedelic drugs and the occult. He even takes time to speak to any synagogue of Satan that will host him, as can be seen in an interview with Harvey Carey of Citadel of Faith, who declared Gross one his “heroes of the faith.”
Gross promotes psychedelics through Drug Camp and Decriminalize Nature, organizations that are dedicated to the legalization and mainstreaming of psychedelics. “Meet Delic” a convention sponsored by Drug Camp, promotes the syncretism of faith, drugs, the occult, and all kinds of worldly debauchery. Gross merely exchanged the attendance of porn conventions for the attendance of drug conventions.
Spiritual Plants, another of Gross’ projects encourages drug users to use psychedelic drugs as a conduit to find god within themselves.
Entheogens are compounds, typically plant medicine, that elevates states of consciousness and gives humans a felt experience of their unity with the Divine. When used with intention and respect, these spiritual plants can show you a side of yourself that you’ve never seen before. The Divine.
The deconstruction of Craig Gross from porn pastor to pot smoker to drug promoter to a promoter of the occult shows that when warning signs are present in the life of a so-called Christian leader, and the ministry of that leader does not reflect the teachings of scripture, believers should run far away. Gross was never a pastor. He has always been a charlatan at heart. Those who follow in his path are on the road that leads to destruction.
Speaking to chief-enabler Steve Shultz on Episode 46 of Wednesdays with Kat and Steve, she reveals the time she sent a whole bunch of people to jail, insisting in such a sensationalistic way that even Ergun Caner would be leery of her childhood claims, while at the same time wondering if she didn’t drop more than a few hits of LSD herself.
It’s not a covert operation anymore, but back in the day in the late 1960s they started a brand new squad for the vice squad in our city…but that was in the day when drugs were really first being released in America…
…Back in the day, most young people didn’t have enough money to do anything…and so the drug lords in the area that moved in, they actually manufactured their own drugs, which actually killed a lot of people, because they didn’t know how to do anything.
Kat goes on to describe the ways that they smuggled drugs in, and how after it was distributed into her school, it killed 10 percent of the student body – killing 60 out of 600 seniors in one year. The drug cartels going undercover in schools as regular students resulting in an epidemic of overdoses and deaths in school was not being reported by the media. [Editor’s note: This seems like a clear attempt to pre-explain things to avoid fact-checking.]
So we were just targeted for that type of thing, and so they [drug dealers] would go around to different cliques in the school, maybe they didn’t listen, maybe they got into trouble sometimes wherever they would actually watch the students back in the day.
…some [dealers] look like just businessmen visiting, or maybe somebody’s uncle supposedly was coming to visit somebody, but they would also have some plants in the school body that looked like teenagers. And so they would seek out the ones they thought would make good pushers, they would give them drugs for free and get them hooked.
Well, they didn’t have money. I mean it would cost a lot of money when you get hooked on these things out back in the day thing was like LSD and other stuff like that are really violent drugs.
And just so you know how bad it was. I have a body of 600 seniors – 60 died from drug overdose. Ten percent of our senior body died because of these pushers that kept coming on the property and getting them hooked.
Enter Kat Kerr- undercover agent.
So the vice squad and FBI back in that day came together with a plan which wouldn’t work today probably. They didn’t ask any parent’s permission. I didn’t sign any papers saying ‘yes’ but they [FBI] would highlight students who were the good students but maybe the loners, you know, stuck to themselves, made pretty good grades, but always listened to those in authority and respected authority.
They would take you aside into a room with just like a vice squad agent, and maybe a police woman, and they would offer you the chance to be a covert operation. Back in that day, I was all for justice. Let me tell you how much so many of the students died. And they said, ‘would you mind being like an inside spy for us? We’ll give you a code name, here’s a phone number, you call this number, if you know about a drug deal going down.’
Ker claims that she watched the drug pushers that infiltrated her school, and because she says she has a photographic memory, she could recall all their names, faces, details, everything, which she then reported to the FBI.
And then I would just go call the phone number and say, ‘this is so and so again’, my code name, I said ‘there’s going to be a push going down with the drug dealers coming in to leave all the drugs with the teenager.’ They gave him free drugs to push the drugs, thinking they wouldn’t get caught. I think I turned in seven of the biggest pushers – one was the biggest pusher in the city. Yes, he went to prison. And so I called and told them when every time when it was going to go down. I could even be nearby and see him in jail.
My parents never found out until like 40 years later when I told them what I had done. My dad was not shocked…I could just be standing by a tree or something they don’t know. And they had a little group going over there I was not a threat to anybody. I didn’t look like a cop. But you know, we haven’t had a lot of covert people out there right now. And so I did, I just caught him all the information, it was enough to bust down. They did go to court, I didn’t have to be there. They had all the evidence because I gave that to them beforehand. They were caught red handed.”
A new interview with Korn guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch, has the famed musician-turned-Christian saying that while his faith may have saved him from an alcohol and drug addiction, he also may have “went too far” with his preaching, explaining he “got obsessed with it, just like I was obsessed with drugs.”
Speaking to Robb Flynn on the No Fu—- Regrets Podcast, Welch explains that he was deeply addicted to drugs, even doing meth for 700 days straight. Lost in his addiction and dependency, he found Jesus, quit everything cold turkey, starting aggressively sharing his faith, left the band in 2005 (later rejoined in 2013) and has since then released albums and documentaries about his experience and life.
After Flynn asked Welch if he believed his faith became his “new addiction,” replacing drugs with a Jewish Messiah, Welch responded:
The crazy thing is I had an experience with something from another dimension. And it wasn’t the religion — going to church and being a good boy — it was, like, I felt something come into my house, and I can’t explain it to this day. But I believe that it was Christ doing something in me. So that was real — that was very real.
But yes, I think I went too far with it. And I got obsessed with it, just like I was obsessed with the drugs. I believe I did, for sure. And I had to come out of that and find normalcy, because there’s nothing worse than a freakin’ irritating religious person just shoving it down your throat — there’s nothing worse than that.
And you saw it on the documentary [Loud Krazy Love], Jonathan’s [Davis, Korn singer] like, ‘I hate those motherfu—– people, can’t stand ’em.’ And for years, we’ve had those Christians outside of Korn concerts, saying Korn’s of the devil, and all this. It’s crazy — it’s a crazy thing. But I’m just glad I got through it. And I’m glad that I am who I am now, and I have a lot of peace and rest for my soul. I feel very leveled and at peace with myself.
Welch is deeply ingrained in the charismatic/pentecostal side of the faith. A few years ago he was featured on the Film “Holy Ghost” where charlatan Todd White did a leg-lengthening parlor trick on film at a Korn concert, with the film director explaining:
So we headed out to the crowd, with both Brian Welch and Fieldy, the bass player in the band and another born again believer in tow, and what followed was simply electric. Within minutes we were surrounded by nearly a hundred kids, an atheist was healed, and about 40 kids accepted Jesus as their Lord and savior. The guys were so pumped we decided to do it again after the concert.
Sure enough, another 20 or so kids accepted Jesus, many were healed, and Brian and Fieldy realized what they were capable of using their celebrity for on the road.
Furthermore, after South Carolina passed their controversial HB2, the law stating that people could only use the restroom and changing facility that corresponds with the sex on their birth certificate, tons of musicians, artists and government agencies cancelled the state. Welch and Korn spoke out against this “hateful bill,” saying in a statement:
We don’t care where you pee – just please flush. It’s pretty simple, really. We’ve decided to partner with Equality NC, the LGBTQ advocacy group leading the fight against this hateful bill. You can talk to Equality NC at our show about how to get involved, and get registered to vote in NC. That way we won’t have to talk about this the next time we come back there. We’re coming to North Carolina to show our fans that they can make the difference needed to repeal this law and return their state to a place that welcomes everyone and values differences.
