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Christian teaching is that life has meaning; life is worth living. Suffering is an integral part of existence. Jesus didn't commit suicide, he suffered voluntarily. Jim Jones inverts this core tenet of completely and utterly, almost too many times to keep track of.

This is what a satanic sermon sounds like
>It’s never been done before you say? It’s been done by every tribe in history, every tribe facing annihilation. All the Indians in the Amazon are doing it now. They refuse to bring any babies into the world. They kill every child that comes into the world, because they don’t want to live in this kind of a world. So be patient, be patient … death is … I tell you I don’t care how many screams you hear, I don’t care how many anguished cries … death is a million times preferable to ten more days of this life. If you knew what was ahead of you, if you knew what was ahead of you, you’d be glad to be stepping over tonight.
>Without me, life has no meaning. I'm the best friend you'll ever have.
>Let's just be done with it. Let's be done with the agony of it. It's far, far harder to have to watch you every day die slowly and from the time you were a child to the time you get gray you're dying.

At some point in the tape, while Christine Miller is arguing for everyone's lives, her reasoning takes an interesting turn. She begins to make an argument from free will, an argument that would have equal validity to both a Christian and a satanist.

>Christine - I know that. But I still think, as an individual. I have a right to...
>Jones - You do, I'm listening...
>Christine - I think, what I feel, and I think we all have the right to our own destiny as individuals
>Jones - Right
>Christine - And I think I have the right to choose mine and everybody else has the right to choose theirs.
>Jones - Mm-hmm.