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Jones
Jonestown
suicide
temple
quickie
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Social injustices can cause circumstances in which people will give up reason, logic, and personal responsibility to follow a leader who offers them protection from an unsafe universe.
The message is meant to make all question who call themselves religious people. It is there for (Prime Minister) Begin (of Israel) and (President) Sadat (of Egypt). It is there as an early Christmas present for those who use Christianity in fanatical ways. It is there also for all political leaders.
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Your religious leaders have freedom to say what they want to, and they have all of technology’s advances in communications at their service. As per James, when democracy does not work, people look elsewhere. Jones’s followers were the disinherited, the disenchanted, the poor and struggling, yet many of those people were intellectually gifted and felt their promise cut off.
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