Yes, I have a proud Christian past. I was one of the few survivors in Johnestown and that's why I'm now out of religion--because they all died and the place is gone. And let me just say that Peoples Temple was a great religion. Jim Jones picked up many troubled people from the urban area which society abandoned but who now enjoyed living in nature, working together, singing, and learning about animals.
But it's because of those idiots Dawkins and Hitchens that you only see the bad stuff about Johnestown. Like all of you neoatheists only concentrate on the massacre of 900 people, and yet that was only like one day, and those deprivation tanks was something that I wasn't even aware of when I was in Johnestown; also I still don't believe that Jones was doing speedballs--I mean how could a man who so profoundly talked about the Sermon on the Mount be coked up? You're all bigots.
But it's because of those idiots Dawkins and Hitchens that you only see the bad stuff about Johnestown. Like all of you neoatheists only concentrate on the massacre of 900 people, and yet that was only like one day, and those deprivation tanks was something that I wasn't even aware of when I was in Johnestown; also I still don't believe that Jones was doing speedballs--I mean how could a man who so profoundly talked about the Sermon on the Mount be coked up? You're all bigots.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
