tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post3201852287944149742..comments2024-03-14T14:41:17.663-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Jonestown revisitedRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-18590516349539895772010-06-09T08:34:36.846-04:002010-06-09T08:34:36.846-04:00"Yes, Jonestown was of course brought about b..."Yes, Jonestown was of course brought about by atheism. Except for the whole religious part."<br /><br />The joke's on you, as Jim Jones was actually an atheist who played the religious angle only to get people lured into his Communistic utopia.<br /><br />See documentation here:<br /><br />http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/1978/12a.html<br /><br />"Mrs. Jim Jones told The New York Times in 1977 that her husband had decided when he was 21 years old that the way to achieve his Marxist goals was to mobilize people through religion. "Jim used religion to try to get some people out of the opiate of religion," she said, adding that he had once slammed a Bible on the table and said, "I've got to destroy this paper idol!" (New York Times, 11/26/78, p. 20.) The Times informs us that Jones "was openly contemptuous of religion among his associates." (New York Times, 11/21/78, p. A 16). But he used religion to entice new recruits and to deceive naive outsiders. After the victims were hooked, he used sex, blackmail, intimidation and psychological dependence to manipulate them. At Jonestown, where there were no outsiders to be deceived, there were no religious services or discussions of religion. (Washington Post, 11/25/78, p. A 3.)"Viisaushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02682159289133730565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-34847201450259296542010-06-08T12:33:52.003-04:002010-06-08T12:33:52.003-04:00"Atheism is a devil’s pact."
So true, s...<i>"Atheism is a devil’s pact."</i><br /><br />So true, so true.<br /><br /><i>"Conversely, apostasy is a liberating experience."</i><br /><br />Dan Barker and John Loftus come to mind.<br /><br /><i>"So why don’t we make ourselves the last generation on earth? If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no sacrifices would be required — we could party our way into extinction!</i>"<br /><br />Well, if liberal atheists choose to do this, then please don't think that conservative Bible-believing Christians have to join you.<br /><br />You want to sterilize yourself and party to extinction... I can't stop you.Truth Unites... and Divideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08891402278361538353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-28791272804677048372010-06-08T11:39:16.323-04:002010-06-08T11:39:16.323-04:00I think it'd be kinda nice to see bunches of p...I think it'd be kinda nice to see bunches of ppl kill themselves (from a worldly POV). Then I could take all their stuff, b/c I didn't drink the KoolAid.Rhologyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14245825667079220242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-57735975074972251532010-06-08T09:53:44.308-04:002010-06-08T09:53:44.308-04:00Try to master the concept of an argument from anal...Try to master the concept of an argument from analogy.stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16547070544928321788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-61550816172560195982010-06-08T09:52:42.413-04:002010-06-08T09:52:42.413-04:00Yes, Jonestown was of course brought about by athe...Yes, Jonestown was of course brought about by atheism. Except for the whole religious part.Evanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14299188458940897810noreply@blogger.com