Whoa. Wait a minute. The People’s Temple was not Christian, any more than Jeremiah Wright’s black liberation “church” is Christian. The People’s Temple was Marxist to the core.
It might have been Marrxist, but it still claimed to be Christian. In Acts 4:32-35, the Apostles lifestyle is described as communal (without individual possession), and uses the phrase “distribution was made unto every man according as he had need”[6]:
“ 32. And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
33. And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
34. Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
35. And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.”
Apparently the Apostles had a bit of the communalist in them.