In 1970, a scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls named John Allegro published The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross, in which he posited that Jesus Christ was not a historical messiah so much as he was a psychedelically induced vision that acts as more of a metaphor. Specifically, Jesus Christ as a result of the […] The post Jesus Wasn’t a Messiah, He Was a Naughty Mushroom Trip. According to This Theory, Anyway. appeared first on VICE .