Just as i always say, many Christians as well as other religious fanatics are continuosly fooled to believe certain fairytales and discard atheism - charging them as hell bound. Now, take time and read scrutinizingly about this great "man of God ".
Rev James Warren Jones " Jim Jones". Born in Indiana in 1931 and died in 1978. He was the founder and leader of the church " Peoples Temple" and infamous mass murder-suicide in November 1978 of 918 of its members in Jonestown , Guyana, and also the murder of Congressman Leo Ryan .
The ordering of four additional Temple member deaths in Georgetown , the Guyanese capital.
Nearly three-hundred children were murdered at Jonestown, almost all of them by cyanide poisoning. Jones died from a gunshot wound to the head; it is suspected his death was a suicide.
He was the son of a world war I veteran James Jones who because of the great depression was forced to move to live in Indiana and at the birth of Jim, said he had given birth to a " great spirit". Jim was very learned and studied the likes of Karl Max, Adolf Hitler and Mahatma Gandhi.
Initially, Jim started his church at Indiana --- where he was born.
Around this time, Jones witnessed a faith- healing service at a Seventh Day Baptist Church.
He observed that it attracted people and their money and concluded that, with financial resources from such healings, he could help accomplish his social goals.
In 1952, Jones became a student pastor in Sommerset Southside Methodist Church, but claimed he left that church because its leaders barred him from integrating blacks into his congregation.
Jones organized a mammoth religious convention to take place June 11 through June 15, 1956, in a cavernous Indianapolis hall called Cadle Tabernacle. To draw the crowds, Jim needed a religious headliner, and so he arranged to share the pulpit with Rev. William M. Branham, a healing evangelist and religious author at the time as highly revered as Oral Roberts.
Following the convention, Jones was able to launch his own church, which changed names until it became the Peoples Temple Christian Church Full Gospel. The Peoples Temple was initially made as an inter-racial mission.
Jones moved away from the Communist Party USA when their members became critical of some of Stalin's policies.
According to religious studies professor Catherine Wessinger , while Jones always spoke of the social gospel's virtues, before the late 1960s Jones chose to conceal that his gospel was actually communism.
By the late 1960s, Jones began at least partially openly revealing the details of his "Apostolic Socialism" concept in Temple sermons. Jones also taught that, "those who remained drugged with the opiate of religion had to be brought to enlightenment — socialism".
Jones often mixed these ideas, such as preaching that, "If you're born in capitalist America, racist America, fascist America, then you're born in sin. But if you're born in socialism, you're not born in sin."
By the early 1970s, Jones began deriding traditional Christianity as "fly away religion", rejecting the Bible as being a tool to oppress women and non-whites, and denouncing a "Sky God" who was no God at all. Jones wrote a booklet titled "The Letter Killeth", criticizing the King James Bible .
Jones also began preaching that he was the reincarnation of Mahatma Gandhi, Father Divine , Jesus , Gautama Buddha and Vladimir Lenin. Former Temple member Hue Fortson, Jr. quoted Jones as saying, "What you need to believe in is what you can see ... If you see me as your friend,
I'll be your friend. As you see me as your father, I'll be your father, for those of you that don't have a father ... If you see me as your savior, I'll be your savior. If you see me as your God, I'll be your God."
In a 1976 phone conversation with John Maher, Jones alternately stated that he was an agnostic and an atheist .
Despite the Temple's fear that the IRS was investigating its religious tax exemption, Marceline Jones admitted in a 1977 New York Times interview that Jones was trying to promote Marxism in the United States by mobilizing people through religion, citing Mao Zedong as his inspiration. She stated that, "Jim used religion to try to get some people out of the opiate of religion", and had slammed the Bible on the table yelling "I've got to destroy this paper idol!"
In one sermon, Jones said that, "You're gonna help yourself, or you'll get no help! There's only one hope of glory; that's within you! Nobody's gonna come out of the sky! There's no heaven up there! We'll have to make heaven down here!"
In November 1978, 909 inhabitants of Jonestown, 304 of them children, died of apparent cyanide poisoning , mostly in and around the settlement's main pavilion.
This resulted in the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act until the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 .The FBI later recovered a 45 minute audio recording of the suicide in progress .
On that tape, Jones tells Temple members that the Soviet Union, with whom the Temple had been negotiating a potential exodus for months, would not take them after the airstrip murders.The reason given by Jones to commit suicide was consistent with his previously stated conspiracy theories of intelligence organizations allegedly conspiring against the Temple, that men would "parachute in here on us", "shoot some of our innocent babies" and "they'll torture our children, they'll torture some of our people here, they'll torture our seniors".
Parroting Jones' prior statements that hostile forces would convert captured children to fascism, one temple member states "the ones that they take captured, they're gonna just let them grow up and be dummies".
Given that reasoning, Jones and several members argued that the group should commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide -laced grape-flavored Flavor Aid .
Later-released Temple films show Jones opening a storage container full of Kool-Aid in large quantities.
However, empty packets of grape Flavor Aid found on the scene show that this is what was used to mix the solution along with a sedative.
One member, Christine Miller, dissents toward the beginning of the tape. When members apparently cried, Jones counseled, "Stop these hysterics.
This is not the way for people who are socialists or communists to die. No way for us to die. We must die with some dignity." Jones can be heard saying, "Don't be afraid to die", that death is "just stepping over into another plane" and that it's "a friend". At the end of the tape, Jones concludes: "We didn't commit suicide; we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world."
According to escaping Temple members, children were given the drink first and families were told to lie down together.
Mass suicide had been previously discussed in simulated events called "White Nights" on a regular basis. During at least one such prior White Night, members drank liquid that Jones falsely told them was poison.
Jones was found dead on a deck chair with a gunshot wound to his head that Guyanese coroner Cyrill Mootoo stated was consistent with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
However, Jones' son Stephan believes his father may have directed someone else to shoot him.
An autopsy of Jones' body also showed levels of the barbiturate Pentobarbital which may have been lethal to humans who had not developed physiological tolerance.Jones' drug usage (including LSD and cannabis) was confirmed by his son, Stephan, and Jones' doctor in San Francisco.
On December 13, 1973, before he died, Jones was arrested and charged with soliciting a man for sex in a movie theater restroom known for homosexual activity, near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles.
The man was an undercover LAPD vice officer . Jones is on record as later telling his followers that he was "the only true heterosexual", but at least one account exists of his sexual abuse of a male member of his congregation in front of the followers, ostensibly to prove the man's own homosexual tendencies.
While Jones banned sex among Temple members outside of marriage, he himself voraciously engaged in sexual relations with both male and female Temple members.
Jones, however, claimed that he detested engaging in homosexual activity and did so only for the male temple adherents' own good, purportedly to connect them symbolically with him (Jones).
One of Jones' sources of inspiration was the controversial International Peace Mission movement leader Father Divine and till now, he has no law suit filled against him.
From this we see that Christianity is a total deception and delusion, in the name of Jesus -- Amen. A disease which needs immediate intensive treatment.
But till then, my only advice is that " if you live in a glass house dont throw stones".
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