Jim Jones's Suicide

A case study that I’m doing is the mass suicide in Jonestown plotted by a cult leader Jim Jones. SInce Jim Jones was young he studied Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler and many other leaders, trying to find out everything. He was different as a child compared to other children, he was obsessed with different religions and deaths. In 1952 Jones became a student pastor at Somerset Methodist Church, he had a reputation for a healer and an evangelist. Not a lot of people like him for trying to have a racially diverse sermon. He created a group known as The Peoples Temple of the Disciples Christ or known as Peoples Temple in 1955. It’s a group to spread different message of christianity, politics and mainly racial equality as his father used
Jim Jones a religious cult leader that caused the mass suicide. He believes that Jonestown was a place for people that follows his religions and believes his teachings were right as he cares for the people in need. “ My whole life I have suffered from poverty and have faced many disappointments and pain,like a man is used to. That is why I want to make other people happy and want them to feel at home” He also believes in “revolutionary suicide” and practices them in Jonestown. He calls them White Nights which it’s his suicide drills to see if his followers are loyal. Revolutionary suicide is when God rewards them in their after life. He believes these because he values all his Temple members and he values different racial equality and accepted African Americans as his members and cared for them. He would preach for the African Americans and brings them to Jonestown. Jones also values himself as a modern god that will help the world by his teachings and beliefs to make it into a better world. Jim Jones views and values have been shaped by religious ideology as since he was young he was interested and studied different religions and teaches his own religion. People with this ideology has been brought up in a religious community and believes on his religions as he became a reverend to share his beliefs. Jones’s preach about how he was the reincarnation of Ghandi, Jesus Buddha, Lenin, and Father Divine as he sees himself as a leader that will lead the world into a better place. He had no bias towards anybody and helps the ones in need like God. Also another ideology that his views and values have been shaped by is his cult ideology. People with this ideologies believes whatever they’re doing is right and think his followers will follow him do what he says. Since Jones is the leader of a cult his motifs and goal in the end was the mass suicide that led 909 americans killing themselves for believe in Jim