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I just found post 34 to be much more of the Jim Jones perspective than anything else.

The more mature God has made me, the less I’ve had any confidence in any RELIGIOUS CLUB.

I’ve particularly been wary of any which had any of the following sorts of features and tendencies—which eventually—they all move toward—and the club which construes itself to be as follows is the most screamingly outrageous example of how NOT to DO RELIGION. One would have thought humans would have gotten Christ’s drift from His characterizations of the Jewish bureaucratic hierarchical RELIGIOUS club of His dusty pathed days.

THESE are the features which remind me of Jim Jones:

**The purportedly only truly truest truly true; authentically genuinely real; truly magicsterically verified one [Cross splinter, Mary’s hanky, Pebble Peter’s toenail clipping . . . fantasized fantastically derived dogma . . . ] available

**The only anointed one—usually by dubious fantasized ‘virtue’ of some ‘Godly’ sanction which God didn’t have anything to do with. Jim Jones—the presumed anointed one is a glaring modern example of the RC’s long traditional claims of a similar schtick . . .

**The purportedly only one with some specialized jury- rigged, fantasized or any other kind of monopoly . . .

**The purportedly only one with authentic, genuine real magicsterically produced plastic idols

**The purportedly only one with genuine real plastic indulgences

**The purportedly only one with genuine real rubber ‘bibles’

**The purportedly only one with genuine real rubber dictionaries

**The purportedly only one with genuine real rubber histories

**The purportedly only one with a vast fossilized self aggrandizing, self perpetuating hierarchical clique of political power-mongers fantasized to reach back 400 years beyond their founding to pebble Peter . . .

**The purportedly only one with magnificent magical earth-mother Mary (affirmed periodically by) the Mary characterized ET personage and assorted technological sound and light shows . .

**The purportedly only one with an infallible leadership force-ably wildly acclaimed (under penalty of eternal damnation or early Kool-Aid drinking if the cheers are not loud enough) by all the bureaucracy AND the simple serfs as meriting such an infallible label by the SPECIALIZED VIRTUE of some unique mumbo jumbo or fantasized history

**The purportedly only one with specialized pontifical accoutrements, dress, symbols, rituals and the like emphasizing the hierarchy’s monopolistic death grip on fantasized specialized exclusive RELIGIOUS and LIFE-ITSELF TURF--granted by GOD HIMSELF—though—in fact—God didn’t come near saying any such thing . . .

**Where Dying for the leadership, the bureaucracy, the organization is equated as dying for God. Jim Jones was just following centuries of !!!!TRADITION!!!! on that Score . . . .

** Where Creating NONBiblical hoops for the serfs and their families to jump through AFTER earthly death as a means of collecting more coins

**Where Creating NONBiblical brazenly false fantasies and elaborations based on outrageous interpretations of single words or short phrases—such as ‘full of Grace’ = no more children; her own immaculate fantasy; her own bodily ascension; her own magical hankies . .

I could go on, but I hope that’s clear enough. If any of the above words are not in your Rubber Dictionary, please let me know and I’ll be happy to elaborate.