That's an oxymoron of a sentence.
They were Godless and were therefore easily duped.
**These weren’t dummies just falling into place; they really believed in what Jones was preaching.***
NOTHING jim jones did after he became a mad man,... NOTHING he did was for anyone but himself and power.
When he was a kid, he would go to church with anyone who would take him with them. He’d sit on the front row and have his bible with him. He took it seriously.. he didn’t know much.. just that it was better than what he had at home. In school, he did not have friends.. didn’t seem to want any. He was definitely different and strange.
He took that and made a temple for people who would serve him. He took it to a country, where they could not find him and stop him. Then a senator began an investigation and jones went off the deep end believing he was losing it all. That poison acted immediately... they did not know what was happening .. they cooperated and trusted the wrong person.