(September 27, 2017 at 2:27 pm)Losty Wrote:(September 27, 2017 at 2:24 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: He DID believe in God until he DIDN'T, kinda like some of you...
He killed a bunch of people because it was god's supposed will. So he wasn't an atheist when he committed the atrocity then...right?
Wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple
Quote:The move to San Francisco permitted Jones to return to urban recruitment and made better political sense because it permitted the Temple to show its true political stripes. By spring 1976, Jones openly admitted even to outsiders that he was an atheist. Despite the Temple's fear that the IRS was investigating its religious tax exemption, by 1977, Jones' wife, Marcy, openly admitted to the New York Times that Jones had not been lured to religion because of faith, but because it served his goal of social change through Marxism. She stated that, as early as age 18 when he watched his idol Mao Zedong defeat the Nationalists in the Chinese Civil War, Jones realized that the way to achieve social change in the United States was to mobilize people through religion. She admitted 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!"