Were Early Christians On Shrooms?

In 1970  British Archaeologist John Marco Allegro released his book The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross. It's been widely agreed that the book completely Ruined his career with its highly controversial nature.

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross brings up the idea that early religions were based heavily off of drug use, more specifically psychedelic mushrooms, due to the fact that they occur naturally and do not need special treatment to be consumed. John also claims that early Christianity was heavily based around the consumption of hallucinogenics in rituals and heavily influenced the founders of the religion/authors of the first testament.

It is hard to Argue with Allegro on the idea that early indigenous religions had drugs included in some way. Many Historians believe most forms of early religion were based off of sex and drugs (mostly sex). Examples of mushroom effigies and carvings of mushrooms appear in many temples in South America, and Soma, a traditional beverage consumed by Hindu priests, is agreed to either be a tea made of the Amanita mushroom (which has some psychedelic property's), or some form of Cannabis.

But did early Christians consume hallucinogenics? Well, Allegros evidence for his arguments come mostly from Christian paintings and stained glass that have images of Mushrooms in them, such as these:





So were early Christians getting high? Well some probably were, but was the whole based around drugs? In truth, there is no way to know for sure. But the concept is at least interesting and amusing.