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BB-18-Z-117 – Z-118 A FEW EXAMPLES OF CHARACTER CONCERN FOR LIFE: nature When we went to Philadelphia to the Father Divine Estate, the gardeners there wanted to cut down the…

…describe the uniqueness of Peoples Temple, which was more similar to urban black churches such as that of Father Divine or Sweet Daddy Grace than it was the controversial NRMs…

…often. • A number of elderly black women had also come to the Temple via Father Divine’s Peace Mission movement, and were known by the names they had adopted there….

…Father Divine. Could he have contacted the Peace Mission, learned that they were real pissed JJ, and had the info phoned to JJ, knowing some of the members were licensed…

…in Guyana, including a half dozen former members of Father Divine’s Peace Mission, in Philadelphia, who died on November 18, 1978, and one man, Odell Rhodes from Detroit, who survived….

…from these differing locales and how they, in turn, changed the character of the Temple. Here, I am reminded of the scholarship on Father Divine, and how the Los Angeles…

…If you were looking for a father figure, he’d be your father. He always homed in on what you needed and managed to bring you in emotionally.”[16] Everybody in the…

…be a fellow human being, they were slowly convinced that he had “paranormal” abilities given him by a divine being. He began asking his followers to call him “Father” as…

…sect claimed that UFOs were “celestial warnings of an impending Divine interruption of the course of world events”[24] – or in simple terms, Armageddon.[25] These extraterrestrial “wee men” in “flying…

…allegedly manipulated members into abiding by every word of their “father.” Many believe Jones knew exactly what he was doing, and that he was clearly a man orchestrating a plan…