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...child. He was part of an unconventional family where his mother was the breadwinner and his father was a brooding man whose work life was cut short by mustard gas scarring from World War I on his lungs. Jones sought out acceptance and a sense of family through churches, but at the same time he had a tremendous need for power and control. He would conduct little church services up in the loft of a barn and lock his playmates in there; later he used a firearm to try to control his best friend. These early incidents, as well...
...most part in the early years. They were hard-working people, and they were drawn initially to a rare thing in the Midwest, an integrated Christian congregation. When Jones brought his group to California, he started attracting a broader base of people, too. Not just people from the churches, especially the black churches, but also young, idealistic, many of them college-educated people, who wanted to belong to an organization that practiced what it preached and had a social and political component. He also built through the communal organizations that he set up within the Temple a sense of family...
Today, discussions in support of the separation of church and state tend to turn around this second concern. But an examination of the way in which this same marriage negatively affects religious communities might be similarly valuable...
...told TIME with regard to the Catholic hierarchy's attitude toward Obama. However, if Obama signs the Freedom of Choice Act in his first months in office, "it would be the equivalent of a war," says the same official. "It would be like saying, 'We've heard the Catholic Church and we have no interest in their concerns.' " U.S. Catholic bishops at a meeting in Baltimore last week vowed to take on Obama for his support of abortion rights; they are also skeptical about his assurances to try to reduce the number of abortions while supporting the right to choose...
Best Inventions I was interested to read in "Best Inventions of the Year" [Nov. 10] that the Catholic Church had listed as one of its new deadly sins as "accumulating excessive wealth and creating poverty." This would presumably be the same Catholic Church that condemns a large portion of the Third World to continuing poverty due to its blinkered prohibition of contraception? And no doubt speaking from the opulent splendor of the Vatican? Bob Bury, LEEDS, ENGLAND...