Monthly Archives: October 2021
The Solar Temple
By James Haught The Rev. Jim Jones led 900 fervent believers into mass murder-suicide at Jonestown in 1977. Many swallowed cyanide and gave it to their children. Ohio cult leader Jeffrey Lundgren made a human sacrifice of a family of five in 1989. Then he and his followers wandered through West Virginia, Missouri and California… Read more »
Weekly Update: 2-Oct-2021 to 8-Oct-2021
Fundamentalist Intolerance
By James Haught Across America, right-wing politicians pass “religious freedom” laws that have a single purpose: to let narrow-minded believers discriminate against gays — an intolerance that is illegal for other people under human rights laws. In other words, only born-again Christians are allowed to express prejudice and hostility, while other Americans live by kinder standards. Actually,… Read more »