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…Jim found nothing wrong with this but the relationship does not seem to have improved him. Jim said his father was giving trouble and is “the most dangerous of all.”…

…a system where religion is the opiate of the people, not only the opiate but the backbone of slavery. This Afrikaaner white man described himself as detribalized. His father is…

…visit. Last December Jones was appointed to head the city’s Housing Authority Commission. The source of Jones’s political clout is not very difficult to divine. As one politically astute executive…

…taught the Apostolic faith. [Name deleted] advised that sometime around 1960 Jones took a trip to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to visit an individual called “Father Devine [Divine]”, a Negro male, who…

…even as he touted and embraced the cloak of “savior” and “father.” These self-imposed roles, however, would be more indicative of his insatiable thirst for worship, and a narcissism that…

…free spirit looking to do the right thing in my life. My mother was a single parent, and not having a father figure around to look up to, I was…

…father, Carolyn Moore Layton wrote, “It is interesting that with a simpler lifestyle people have more time for deep thinking and analysis than they do in a fast-paced urban setting…

…to call him “Father” and used a variety of methods to prove to his congregation that he had divine powers. His methods included staging “fraudulent psychic-healing demonstrations using rotting animal…

…TWO IP 89-181 UNCLAS had a meeting with a Father Devine [Divine] in Philadelphia. After Jones’ meeting with Father Devine in Philadelphia Jones became very dogmatic and wanted to assert…

…where he had served for 15 years, my father Victor Henken, liked to reflect on the two qualities that he thought all priests should have. “Like Jesus himself,” Dad would…