Thursday, February 28, 2008

Rescuing Kool-Aid From The Memory Hole

Reading your book has revived my suspicion of how the media treats the memory of Jim Jones and the People's Temple. The Peoples' Temple was a leftist project, but leftists dismiss it as a “cult.” Jones (and the Unibomber) is an aberration. Now I find that Jones:


  1. Called his theology – apostolic socialism. He ridiculed what he called “white Christianity.”

Yet Left rants about the fascist threat from conservative Christians; Andrew Sullivan calls them “Christianists.” If a white Christian minister had duped, intimidated over 900 members of his congregation to literally “drink the Kool-Aid”, our media would still be talking about him. But Jim Jones was a non-white leader of a inter-racial, pseudo-Christian, leftist “temple”, who destroyed his followers because they failed to create heaven on earth. Sounds familiar.