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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (31975)	10/11/2001 4:00:39 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"It's that touch of ambiguity that keeps us all wondering." Everyone "wondered" how a man like Jim Jones, who had been so kind and scholarly in his ministry, could have interpreted Christianity the way he did. He was known, watched and allowed to perform his brand of extremism. In the end ... we dismissed the whole episode as extreme and cultish. I did not, at that time, "wonder" about Christianity in the context of the Jim Jones ministry. I did wonder about how someone could lead a group off the deep end. Lots of American Muslim scholars have come out with clear, conservative, and moderate explanations of Islam, Jihad, and the curruption of our ideals that are being perpetrated by terrorists. I don't wonder about the terrorists. I do wonder about the effects of their charisma on otherwise decent people.