Jim Jones and the People's Temple

"If they were to mow me down with a machine gun out here today, if they were to burn me out here and make nothing but ashes, in five minutes, I would be standing here," Jones said. "I said it and I will keep my word. I said, I cannot tell you and I promise you, you will never lose if you follow me." A cult assumes any sort of attack against them as persecution because they assume the Bible says this is what's going on.