Jesus Cobos
History 146-01 The Christian Church of the People’s Temple was very much a big thing for it’s time. The church’s fundamental ideas of equality, loyalty, and working for the collective-good made its success thrive in the environment of nineteen-sixties america. For those of color the church would accept regardless of the outer world’s racism. For those of old age the church provided homes, food, care, and healing. For the people without a place to go and no defined will, the People’s Temple would gladly accept and lead them. Upon these ideals of acceptance and community, the church founded its roots under one man Jim Jones. Jones preached what the people wanted. He solely wasn’t just a voice, but rather a man who seemed to make …show more content…
Stories say of times where he would call a woman out from the crowd of hundreds and fix her site. Another time, he selected a woman in a walker and told her to stand and that she did, with enough strength to have the woman able to run about the church. These fake demonstrations of healings made Jones look further more like the miracle worker that these people believed him to be. Not anymore is he creating dreams through settlements, now his power reached and healed those from within the crowd. He later began referring to himself as a god, that if one in the audience were to envision him as such that he would turn himself into that very god. Frankly, the people believed him and they followed along with it until crowds of people followed his every …show more content…
Jones as a leader of the church brought a place for both black and whites to live in harmony. He continued on by sprouting forth new miracles, giving those across the nation a purpose at his settlement in Ukiah. In his settlement, he fostered a need to give all possessions toward better use, as the members of his church worked and supplied the church for the common good. Jones’ followers took his lead as the best choice at time even having jones think for them. Now with the rise of evangelists, Jones positioned himself as a false deity in the minds of his followers by casting miracles upon the sick. Jones later moved his people to the isolated lands of Ghana where he grew their distrust in one another until some followers were devoted enough to take arms against betrayers. His presence, control and manipulation among his followers all led to the Jonestown mass
History 146-01 The Christian Church of the People’s Temple was very much a big thing for it’s time. The church’s fundamental ideas of equality, loyalty, and working for the collective-good made its success thrive in the environment of nineteen-sixties america. For those of color the church would accept regardless of the outer world’s racism. For those of old age the church provided homes, food, care, and healing. For the people without a place to go and no defined will, the People’s Temple would gladly accept and lead them. Upon these ideals of acceptance and community, the church founded its roots under one man Jim Jones. Jones preached what the people wanted. He solely wasn’t just a voice, but rather a man who seemed to make …show more content…
Stories say of times where he would call a woman out from the crowd of hundreds and fix her site. Another time, he selected a woman in a walker and told her to stand and that she did, with enough strength to have the woman able to run about the church. These fake demonstrations of healings made Jones look further more like the miracle worker that these people believed him to be. Not anymore is he creating dreams through settlements, now his power reached and healed those from within the crowd. He later began referring to himself as a god, that if one in the audience were to envision him as such that he would turn himself into that very god. Frankly, the people believed him and they followed along with it until crowds of people followed his every …show more content…
Jones as a leader of the church brought a place for both black and whites to live in harmony. He continued on by sprouting forth new miracles, giving those across the nation a purpose at his settlement in Ukiah. In his settlement, he fostered a need to give all possessions toward better use, as the members of his church worked and supplied the church for the common good. Jones’ followers took his lead as the best choice at time even having jones think for them. Now with the rise of evangelists, Jones positioned himself as a false deity in the minds of his followers by casting miracles upon the sick. Jones later moved his people to the isolated lands of Ghana where he grew their distrust in one another until some followers were devoted enough to take arms against betrayers. His presence, control and manipulation among his followers all led to the Jonestown mass