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This will be a theme for their churches all along.

It's important that it all happens in the context of the 50s into the 60s. I mean, the time period is really important to this. The church is kind of a blend of evangelical Christianity, as I understand, with sort of a New Age spirituality mixed with this radical social justice, which is a potent mixture for any kind of church.

It's important that it all happens in the context of the 50s into the 60s. I mean, the time period is really important to this. The church is kind of a blend of evangelical Christianity, as I understand, with sort of a New Age spirituality mixed with this radical social justice, which is a potent mixture for any kind of church.

It's important that it all happens in the context of the 50s into the 60s. I mean, the time period is really important to this. The church is kind of a blend of evangelical Christianity, as I understand, with sort of a New Age spirituality mixed with this radical social justice, which is a potent mixture for any kind of church.

Right. But he still does the healing thing, right? He would call people out of the audience and heal their ailments?

Right. But he still does the healing thing, right? He would call people out of the audience and heal their ailments?

Right. But he still does the healing thing, right? He would call people out of the audience and heal their ailments?

Let's review for a moment. So this church that starts in the mid-50s out in Indiana, Midwest values, all that rest, becomes a whole different kind of operation based on the rise of this personality who's really becoming the centerpiece of this whole thing, Preacher Jim Jones. The moves from one place to the next... are done for reasons that have a lot to do with his feelings, I think, right?

Let's review for a moment. So this church that starts in the mid-50s out in Indiana, Midwest values, all that rest, becomes a whole different kind of operation based on the rise of this personality who's really becoming the centerpiece of this whole thing, Preacher Jim Jones. The moves from one place to the next... are done for reasons that have a lot to do with his feelings, I think, right?

Let's review for a moment. So this church that starts in the mid-50s out in Indiana, Midwest values, all that rest, becomes a whole different kind of operation based on the rise of this personality who's really becoming the centerpiece of this whole thing, Preacher Jim Jones. The moves from one place to the next... are done for reasons that have a lot to do with his feelings, I think, right?

I mean, he becomes very paranoid about the nuclear threat and therefore they moved to California. But moving to San Francisco is also kind of hand in hand, I assume, with his interest in the values that are expressed in that part of the country at that time. Is that a pretty good sketch of why and how they end up over a 15, 20 year movement to ending up in the Bay Area?

I mean, he becomes very paranoid about the nuclear threat and therefore they moved to California. But moving to San Francisco is also kind of hand in hand, I assume, with his interest in the values that are expressed in that part of the country at that time. Is that a pretty good sketch of why and how they end up over a 15, 20 year movement to ending up in the Bay Area?

I mean, he becomes very paranoid about the nuclear threat and therefore they moved to California. But moving to San Francisco is also kind of hand in hand, I assume, with his interest in the values that are expressed in that part of the country at that time. Is that a pretty good sketch of why and how they end up over a 15, 20 year movement to ending up in the Bay Area?

So he's really built a movement.

So he's really built a movement.

So he's really built a movement.

Is it fair to say that the message of his Christian teachings have drifted from traditional Christianity towards more of a political message, towards socialism, even communism, right?

Is it fair to say that the message of his Christian teachings have drifted from traditional Christianity towards more of a political message, towards socialism, even communism, right?

Is it fair to say that the message of his Christian teachings have drifted from traditional Christianity towards more of a political message, towards socialism, even communism, right?

They're pretty mutually exclusive realms, religion and Marxism. There's a quote, those who remain drugged with the opiate of religion had to be brought to enlightenment, which is socialism. I mean, that's the shift that has happened for him here in the late 60s into the 70s, right?