Have you heard some of the lame rants by a few New(Old) pagans and atheists that Jim Jones was a Christian. Even by New Age logic, this is patently false. No Christian would ever claim to be Christ. It's the New Agers that claim to be new Christs, including Jim Jones, Shoko Asahara of Aum-Shinrikyo - all are clearly New age sects. How do you call these guys Christians when they don't follow Christ but claim to be Him ? Where is that in the Christian belief ?
It gets even more lame when you see jim Jones was listed in the New age directory uptil 1972 and then quietly removed and rebranded a "Christian" extremist by the same guys after Jonesboro. I don't deny religious extremism but this one belongs firmly in the New age brand.
2007-04-22 07:16:56 · 11 answers · asked by defOf 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The New Age 'Spiritual Community Guide' of 1972 listed Jim Jones's People's Temple as a 'New Age spiritual center'; after the mass suicide, 'New Age Magazine' branded him as "a dangerous example of Christian fundamentalism" and he was quietly removed from the Guide.
2007-04-22 07:17:56 · update #1
Ask the New Age directory why they listed him as one of their own and then rebranded him, he, he
2007-04-22 07:31:22 · update #2
True, the use of half-truths by New Agers to sell a more complete theory is well known. After all this is the Age of (Dis)information.
2007-04-22 07:42:23 · update #3
I guess it's because he started out using the Bible as a hook to draw in his fish and then half way through when he got the people to where he wants them, revealed his true satanic self. He was never a Christian in the true sense of the word. He was dealing in the occult.
2007-04-22 08:02:59 · answer #1 · answered by charmaine f 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He was allowed to be shown as one for a moment, just enough time to instill more hatred for Christians before being called a New Ager again and the processing of the group mind continued in a stepped up mode. In small doses the process is carried out by using the media to feed propaganda/(biased information) to the unaware public and cause the general population to be alchemically/hermetically morphed into a more easily controlled people.
It doesn't matter whether or not he was called a Christian, just as it doesn't matter whether or not people believe Hitler was a Christian, because those who will believe, in the saving grace of God, will, despite the way that INFORMATION is controlled and manipulated by and for the benefit of Luciferians.
2007-04-22 07:28:58 · answer #2 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If they can connect all the groups that they "call" christian with real christians they can make real christians look all the more wrong. Jim Jones and all the other leaders like him are cults and they dont know it. Thats because they WANT to make sure they feel right about saying christians are wrong.
2016-05-21 01:37:45 · answer #3 · answered by jeniffer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jonestown (massacre) didn't even happen until 1978. He called himself a Christian. And he never said he was Christ. He said, "If you need me to be your father, I will be. If you need me to be your God, I will be. If you need me to be your friend, I will be." He had Messianic delusions, for sure, but I don't recall him ever being quoted as having said he was Jesus, rather an incarnation of Jesus, Lenin, Buddha, and some others. He was an ordained minister in what was at the time a very mainstream denomination called The Disciples Of Christ. He was a nut, but when he first began, what he was offering to people seemed to work. It was only later that he started to really freak out.
I admit, I don't really get the New Age descriptor you're using here.
2007-04-22 07:27:26 · answer #4 · answered by ReeRee 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
After he moved from Indiana, Jones basically clung to the "church" front as a way to beat taxes.
Peoples Temple was a socialist/communist group.
By 1978, real religion was a peripheral thing.......only there as a "windscreen".
2007-04-22 16:53:41 · answer #5 · answered by always remember 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It comes as no surprise that such statements might come from the Neo-Pagan movement. They either have not read the Bible, OR they have not understood what the Holy Spirit says about men such as Jim Jones.
Jones was a predator, a false teacher, a false prophet, and an overt deceiver. His father is the father of lies.
2007-04-22 07:26:41 · answer #6 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
First I heard of it and that's one OLD scab you're picking at. What is this, Dredge Up An Old Hurt Day?
And does anybody label their religion New Age or is that one of those there Epithet Religions like He's Not A Real Christian or He's Not A Real Jew?
2007-04-22 07:26:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Jim Jones is a lousy example of a Christian. He was a cult leader, not a priest. No Christian priest leads hundreds of people to commit suicide in a foreign country. He was a paranoid who thought the world was against him.
2007-04-22 07:25:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
I'm sorry I don't know of any Pagans (or as you call them... er "New-Agers") who claim that Jim Jones was Christian.
2007-04-22 07:22:31 · answer #9 · answered by xx. 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
One of the hallmarks of CULTS is that the leader starts as a prophet and then reveals the convenient fact that they are a direct messiah or agent of God.
It's just another wacko cult. They'll eventually be on Dr. Phil or some other talk show where recovering, de-programmed members tell us about the rituals and brainwashing.
2007-04-22 07:22:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋