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#14 - God's Socialist, pt. 4: Sex, Drugs & Revolution

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Jim's Paranoia Followed Him to California

Jim Jones taught history and government at an adult school in a small northern California town. The popularity of his classes persuaded the school to overlook complaints from some of the students about their controversial content. He once told a class that the catholic church opposed abortion only because they wanted to populate the world with more catholics in order to further the church's quest wo rule the world. It wasn't just jim's strange behavior following him to california too. His parenoia followed him out there as well. After they got up there, gim reaches out to this interesting little communal christian group called the people's temple. Golden rule people lived together and held services on 16 thousand

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