Bad News Regarding Religious Tax Exemptions: Peyote is not a “Sacrament”
You can fault Cousin Jedediah for many things—many things—but charisma is not amongst them. It turns out that Jed has developed something of a following. He assures you that it is not a cult, which you have to imagine are the first words out of every cult leader’s mouth when questioned about it. Having drank Jed’s Kool-Aid, the members of his new religious “order” follow him around like willing lambs, but they have made musings about more practical considerations like religious tax exemptions for the order, and that is why Jed came to you early one Thursday morning. It turns out that whilst in prison, Jedediah was introduced to a higher power, whom he chose to call peyote. Jed tells you one day that he understands why the Earth “is.” Not why it is warming at alarming rates, or why it is going to hell in a handbasket, just why…