so how many Christians can say where they were when they heard about the People's Temple and Jim Jones?

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and why do they still follow people like this?
During the late 1970's, Jones had been abusing prescription drugs and appears to have become increasingly paranoid. Rumors of human rights abuses circulated. As in most high-intensity religious groups, there was a considerable flow of people joining and leaving the group. Tim Stoen, the Temple attorney and right-hand man to Jones left to form Concerned Relatives who claimed that Jonestown was being run like a concentration camp, and that people were being held there against their will. This motivated Leo Ryan, a Congressman, to visit Jonestown in 1978-NOV for a personal inspection. At first, the visit went well. Later, on NOV-18, about 16 Temple members decided that they wanted to leave Jonestown with the visitors. This came as quite a blow to both Jones and the rest of the project. While Ryan and the others were waiting at Port Kiatuma airfield, the local airstrip, some heavily armed members of the Temple's security guards - google it!

http://www.religioustolerance.org/dc_jones.htm

Answer 1

I've never followed a person like this.

Answer 2

In '78, I was 9-months pregnant with my first child. I remember seeing the Jonestown camp on the television. Bodies of men, women, and children were scattered about. I remember the brightly-colored shirts and tropical, floral prints many of them wore. I thought how ironic that was. This setting should have been a welcoming retreat, a community carved out by families that worked side-by-side with one another to make a home in Guyana--which was intended to be a "Utopia", of sorts. These people followed a charismatic leader who selfishly betrayed them. How sad!

Answer 3

I don't remember exactly where I was. But I do remember staying up late one night to listen to the tapes of Jim Jones that were recorded during the last days up to and including the tape where he tells everyone to drink the poison and you can hear people crying and all.

It was a horrific thing that happened to those people. It was sad and he was very derranged. Just as the Waco guy...can't think of his name off hand.

Answer 4

ME!!!! I was in Germany in one of the coldest winters ever. Just about froze my tail off. Over 3 feet of snow in as many days, with drifts as high as 20 feet. The news did shock me tho. Until then I really had not heard much about Jim Jones.

Answer 5

I was actually coming in from the playground, where some nice men in suits had been telling us about Jesus. My parents, both Christians, had a FIT!

I don't think Jones is representative of Christianity, though. I don't believe the Christian doctrine, but I think that's pushing it.

Answer 6

I was in the College Inn in Northridge watching college football drinking a pitcher of cold Budweiser.

Answer 7

If they had known their Bible, they would never have followed this man. Read God's Word, the Holy Bible. He warns us about people like Jim Jones and Karesh and Moon and Joseph Smith and Muhammad.

Answer 8

I was a young housewife, raising three young children. It didn't effect my faith in God and in fact made me want to know God even more so that I could not be deceived or led astray from the Word of God.

Answer 9

I was sitting at home watching it on the news and laughing my head off