[Jane Austen]

Maybe the statement should read “there is no significant connection.” I will the say the same thing re connection between mainline Protestant churches and David Koresh and Jim Jones. I do not judge Protestants by the actions of Paul Crouch or cults such as Children of God even though many, many parallels can be drawn.

[rickomatic]

Maybe the statement should read “there is no significant connection.” I will the say the same thing re connection between mainline Protestant churches and David Koresh and Jim Jones. I do not judge Protestants by the actions of Paul Crouch or cults such as Children of God even though many, many parallels can be drawn.

That's an interesting point. However you leave out one very important distinction.
The heresies preached by Jim Jones, David Koresh, and even Paul Crouch are perversions of Christian doctrine. They are supposedly "new" ideas that the church somehow missed in the past.
The whacked out beliefs of the FLDS sects are in fact restorations of "divine" revelation and doctrine preached by the very founders of the LDS church. To say that Joseph Smith and Brigham Young did not preach these abominations is simply not true.