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I listened to 6 hours of a white night practise night for a college anthropology paper in 1988 and in 2018, I still his laughter in my nightmares.
If you do not remember or know who this is
This is the guy who inspired the phrase “Drinking the Kool Aid”
and, the grape drink was not even that brand.
He promoted ethnic diversity and used a rainbow flag
just over 1,000 people followed him into a mass grave over three locations.
The Agoraphobic PhilosopherOriginally shared by ANN Atheist News Network – 2 commentsSunday, Nov. 18, marked the 40th anniversary of the horrific massacre of more than 900 people at the behest of Rev. Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana. We now know not to “drink the Kool-Aid.” But our society is still blind to the fact that this atrocity was made possible in large part because Jones’ ministry was given a pass by the government of the United States.
The U.S. government, in fact, gives every minister and every religion a pass. Because donations to 501(c)(3) groups are deductible for income-tax purposes, tax-exempt groups are essentially subsidized by the American public. Therefore 501(c)(3) nonprofits must account to the public about what they do with tax-exempt donations — except for churches. The Internal Revenue Service waives all religions, churches, temples, synagogues and mosques from having to file the annual Form 990 information return that other 501(c)(3) entities must file every year in order to retain their tax-exempt status.
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https://www.patheos.com/blogs/freethoughtnow/to-avoid-another-jonestown-reform-irs-church-reporting-policy/To avoid another Jonestown, reform IRS church reporting policy
Jim Jones – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_JonesJames Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American religious cult leader who, along with his inner circle, initiated and was responsible …
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Blasphemy is Duty where not punishable by death
same reason why voting is duty and civic obligation
considering how many places people are literally dying to be able to
and how many Americans went to the polls and spoiled or left blank ballots?
that is worse worse I repeat in bold than choosing to not go
when so many Americans who should have voted were prevented from doing so
and people who have enough, but feel slighted, needed to cast votes for those prevented from doing so.
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He’s argued that religious rituals are a form of exhibiting obsessive-compulsive disorders, and that religious people are on a spectrum of mental illness.
It’s certainly a challenging viewpoint to anyone religious, but it’s also an interesting lens by which to view the phenomena that has moulded societal constructs for millennia.
https://www.indy100.com/article/robert-sapolsky-neuroscientist-thinks-religion-mental-illness-schizophrenia-7834981
This neuroscientist says religion is a mental illness
This neuroscientist says religion is a mental illness
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Alan Robinson-Orr
Anyone who gets up early on a Sunday to spend two hours in a chilly building to worship a deity that isn’t proved to exist is barking.
James Miller
Just another religion hating atheist who doesn’t even understand his own craft
Probably too egotistical to admit the contributions of the Christian religion to science as well
Also, humans are naturally religious, and I find it incredibly suspicious for someone to claim that a natural human behavior found across all cultures is somehow a species wide illness
It defies what we know about pathology
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no, people are naturally followers, and tradition is the worst fallacy of all.
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The 990 form that other nonprofits have to use, certainly would have helped bring the scrutiny Jones deserved sooner.
Heavens Gate was much much smaller but I just cant understand that level of mass suicidal insanity. Jones Town was both mass murder and suicide.I suppose that kind of thinking isn’t far from islamic jihad.
Pushing religion on the insane is so wrong.
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+ANN Atheist News Network the jihad is taking out other people, these Jonestown ones self terminated. it started with the murders at the airstrip… then the call went out and people away from the compound killed themselves, while in the compound, they made the children drink first. Jones’ wife was the first adult, she could not cope and then the masses, at gun point. then there was stragglers forced to drink. Jones himself had someone shoot him too cowardly he was to do it himself. there were a few survivors who hide and told the first hand accounts that I just summarized for you. I was in Canada and I remember all the adults in total shock for weeks.
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Yeah, what I’m saying is, I see killing for a god and a suicide for a god as being very close to the same thought process.
I truly think that people that have major mental issues that religion is more harmful than helpful. At least more often than not.
But I am familiar with Jones Town and what jihad are. I was just trying to compare the religious thinking behind the actions.
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+ANN Atheist News Network it is the same thought, that the afterlife is more important than the life we know we have, eh. just differs in who is being “sent”
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