Influence of Prophets
Today in Global Ethics class we watched a very shocking and mind-boggling video. The video was about the People’s Temple founded by a man named Jim Jones. Jim Jones was obviously a very influential person seeing as though he caused over 900 people to commit suicide. He was responsible for the November 18, 1978 mass murder-suicide. The people of the People’s Temple took cyanide poisoning and many young children died as well. I found this video to be very disturbing. The influence these prophets have on people is ridiculous. What kinds of things was this guy saying to cause such a crowd? Why would people kill themselves just because he said so? I don’t understand why people pay attention so much to prophets. This video made me think of Ishmael because in the book Ishmael, Ishmael talks about how we humans always turn to our prophets for advice. That seemed to be the case for the People’
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