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7/9/2025, 11:35:23 AM
Jim Jones was almost certainly an atheist. This isn't a moral slight against atheism, but merely an observation based upon how his preaching and apparent ideology evolved over the course of several decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JVntXiOksc- Here we have a Jim Jones sermon from around 1960, back when he was still in Indianapolis. Very passionate, Pentacostal-inspired, Christ-centered.
https://youtu.be/SviM_3qBe94?si=M7lKaDnWHrmMX0bj - Flash forward to 1973. This is around the time he had been quoted saying things like 'The Bible is a paper totem' and 'Christianity is a flyaway religion with a sky god'. He'd completely abandoned the faith by this point.
Most evidence points to Jim Jones being a hardcore atheist/communist who used a religious framework as a method of control and I think it's unlikely that he believed in any of his claims of divinity or reincarnation.
>Why would Jim Jones, an atheist, perform a satanic ritual?
>What do you mean by 'satanic ritual'?
>Jim Jones was a CIA asset and it was a mind control experiment
Do you need to be aware that you are performing a satanic ritual in order to successfully perform one? I don't think so. And, because I don't think intentionality matters, I also don't think any of the theories about CIA involvement (I haven't looked into these myself but I am open to them) contradict what I'm about to explain.
Now, when I say 'satanic ritual' I am speaking in the Biblically accurate sense; there are a lot of different flavors of 'satanic' and most of these are decidedly NOT Biblically accurate. LaVeyan satanism is mystical individualism with satan as a symbol, the one based in the Florida is more of a political movement that uses satanic imagery as a form of protest against what they see as unjust religious favoritism laws, and then most else of what you see is 'esoteric luciferianism' descended from 19th-century anarchists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JVntXiOksc- Here we have a Jim Jones sermon from around 1960, back when he was still in Indianapolis. Very passionate, Pentacostal-inspired, Christ-centered.
https://youtu.be/SviM_3qBe94?si=M7lKaDnWHrmMX0bj - Flash forward to 1973. This is around the time he had been quoted saying things like 'The Bible is a paper totem' and 'Christianity is a flyaway religion with a sky god'. He'd completely abandoned the faith by this point.
Most evidence points to Jim Jones being a hardcore atheist/communist who used a religious framework as a method of control and I think it's unlikely that he believed in any of his claims of divinity or reincarnation.
>Why would Jim Jones, an atheist, perform a satanic ritual?
>What do you mean by 'satanic ritual'?
>Jim Jones was a CIA asset and it was a mind control experiment
Do you need to be aware that you are performing a satanic ritual in order to successfully perform one? I don't think so. And, because I don't think intentionality matters, I also don't think any of the theories about CIA involvement (I haven't looked into these myself but I am open to them) contradict what I'm about to explain.
Now, when I say 'satanic ritual' I am speaking in the Biblically accurate sense; there are a lot of different flavors of 'satanic' and most of these are decidedly NOT Biblically accurate. LaVeyan satanism is mystical individualism with satan as a symbol, the one based in the Florida is more of a political movement that uses satanic imagery as a form of protest against what they see as unjust religious favoritism laws, and then most else of what you see is 'esoteric luciferianism' descended from 19th-century anarchists.
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