2007-06-01 20:38:22 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He was a Cult Leader who used the concept of Christianity to "blindside" a lot of people to their deaths. For no reason at all but to show that he could. And you know what?, He did.
2007-06-01 20:57:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
You assume Jim Jones was a Christian preacher. He wasn't. That's why during one sermon he threw the Bible across the room. Jim Jones' religion was Jim Jones.
To correct another person, the Catholic church didn't do the crusades to find a grail. They entered the crusades after receiving a plea from the Orthodox patriarch in Istanbul who complained that Christians were being attacked and persecuted in that part of the world.
2007-06-01 21:11:31 · answer #2 · answered by artsy_lovely_lady 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Please! Don't think that all Christians are like Jim Jones! Jim Jones was a cult leader and in my Book a mass murderer! Thank-God many people were able to break away from his spell and leave his church "The Peoples Temple" I think was the name, before they ended up dead! The deaths of those 900 people was a terrible thing! Terrible indeed!
2007-06-02 04:30:31 · answer #3 · answered by Pamela V 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Why is it that many former Christians strengthen into atheist after examining the bible?" i might ought to declare a great component to it relatively is the church homes' fault, as maximum church homes by no ability prepare the "troublesome" areas of the Bible, so whilst a individual gets to a form of areas and sees that's extremely distinctive from the "sugar lined God" that they are taught approximately they have an inclination to reject the Bible and Christianity because of the fact they think of "how can God be loving, yet do all those issues". "Or, that some human beings, whilst attempting to locate data and help for the claims interior the bible, strengthen into atheist." i haven't heard of that for the period of the previous, besides the shown fact that I relatively have heard the alternative going on... (i.e. C.S. Lewis) "would not it look that examining the bible might deliver one closer with God?" with appropriate examining it does, the priority is that folk tend to study what's declared yet stay unaware of the info interior the story that the Bible would not point out, case in point the Bible would not talk approximately how Baal (the "greatest" God interior the area that the Israelites had conquered) became into worshiped via putting a stay toddler on a heated statue (truly cooking it alive) as a sacrifice
2016-11-25 00:09:41 · answer #4 · answered by parise 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jones was absolutely NOT a christian..........
He signed on with Disciples of Christ denomination so he could keep his tax exempt status.
He did healings and preached like a pentecostal preacher to keep the old black ladies happy.
HE OUTRIGHT SAID the bible was worthless!
He OUTRIGHT SAID "I am your god"!
THis is a ridiculous question..........it is flawed because of your misconceptions about JJ,PT, and JTown................
ANy any of you people that post replies that feed into this question are just as rediculous...............
NOT A CHRISTIAN PREACHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO WAY, NO HOW!
You can believe otherwise, but you'd be an ignorant moron id you did
2007-06-04 14:30:27 · answer #5 · answered by always remember 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On the subject of Jim Jones...poor Kool Aide. Now everyone says you have been drinking the Kool Aide to mean that you have swallowed the party line. It never was cyanide laced Kool Aide. Those cheap bastards bought Flavor Aide which is much cheaper. Just a bit of trivia.
2007-06-01 20:42:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Jim Jones may have called himself a Christian preacher ... but he was a self centered cult leader. Amazing how many "servers of Christ" come to that end isn't it?
2007-06-01 20:44:56 · answer #7 · answered by Lou C 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
For the same reason the Catholics went on their crusades to get "the Holly Grail" in Israel that cost thousands of lives!
Some people say that they're a Christian and do heinous acts I'm glad that I'm in a different Christan church
2007-06-01 22:14:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not a religious person, but if Jim Jones was a Christian, then I'm Aqualung or Uriah Heep.
2007-06-01 20:43:52 · answer #9 · answered by RIFF 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm not a Christian, but I love Jesus and like a lot of Christian teachings. I am appalled by Jim Jones, and I think he does not deserve the title "Christian" because he definitely was not following Christ or God, but his own selfish and delusional mind.
2007-06-01 20:41:31 · answer #10 · answered by Heron By The Sea 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋