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Jonestown Revisited

Posted by Peabody on November 24, 2006 at 16:29:24

This link

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/movies/147027,WKP-News-jonestown24.article

is to an excellent review of the new documentary on Jim Jones and his cult. When all that was happening didn't Berg defend Jones in some of his writings?

Who said this, Berg or Jones? - "Jesus Christ had the most revolutionary teachings...and we feel nobody has really tried Christianity too effectively, or the Judeo-Christian tradition."

As a former member of the COG/Family, do you agree with these comments by former followers of Jones:

"Nobody joins a cult."

"Nobody joins something they think is going to hurt them"

"When you live in a dysfunctional family, you think it's normal."

Do you agree with some former members of TF (and even some current ones) that the following assertion from the Jones documentary is true with regard to Berg & The Family?

"Some former church members still insist that the Peoples Temple had the makings of something great and world-changing, had Jones not taken it in a dark, megalomaniacal and self-destructive direction."