The Jim Jones Religious Movement

The 21st century is the time of possibilities. We are able to change the world with a click of the mouse. Have you ever heard the story of a girl in Chicago that started a revolution in Syria? Sitting on the couch in Chicago and clicking on some links on Facebook she helped to overthrew the local government in one of the Syria cities. It’s hard to believe but we don’t need much to make a difference in the world. But it’s not always been like this. Fifty years ago people had to actually fight to prove something. And if no one believed them, if everyone around them was deaf to their wishes, they may even have had to die to prove something. While some interpret the mass death of the People’s Temple community as insanity, there are good reasons
The founder of the People’s Temple, Jim Jones, was born in 1931 in Crete, Indiana. He began to be interested in religion since childhood, being a teenager, preached in the streets. At the age of 24, he founded the religious group "Disciples of Christ”, which in a year was renamed "People’s Temple". The new movement preached the achievement of "apostolic socialism". One of the main distinctive features of his movement was its ethnicity. There were representatives of a wide variety of peoples, unlike most religious groups of Indiana at that time, where white and black belonged to different parishes. This fact was one of the reasons for people's hostile attitude towards the organization. Many citizens in Indiana saw the heresy in the People’s Temple and the activities of the organization. For these reasons, Jim Jones was forced to move and settle in San Francisco. (Jonestown: The life and Death of People’s
In the mid-1970s, the sect's headquarters moved to San Francisco. After moving, it became more politically active. Supporting the election of the mayor of San Francisco, George Moscone, the founder of the sect received a high post in the city's municipality. Unlike other leaders of the new religious movements, Jim Jones was similar to the highest political and public figures in the country. During the first half of the 1970s, the "People’s Temple" developed even more, so it had a few houses and general educational institutions for children, all of which were given to them by members of the organization; In addition, the organization conducted educational work in the Santa Rosa Junior