Stephan Jones (Jim Jones' son): There are a lot of reasons, I think, that
people ended up taking the poison.
I don’t know who took it, who was injected.
I think, more than anything, it was out of loyalty to everybody else there.
In my case, if I had been there, I know I had a strong will to live, but I think it
was so important to me - how I was perceived by the people of my community, was so important
to me that it might have taken me to my death.
T.D. Jakes (pastor): But if you would just give up and lose your life
and submit totally over to me and say, “Whatever, whatever.
I trust you in season, out of season, when things go right, when things go wrong.
It’s still good for me to live as Christ.
For me to die is gain.”
Jim Jones (Cult Leader): Die with respect.
Die with a degree of dignity.
It’s nothing to death.
It’s just stepping over into another plane.
Don’t, don’t be this way.
T.D. Jakes: I count it all joy. I’ll let nothing separate me from the love of God.
He says, “When you lose your life for my sake, you’ll find it.”
Marshall Applewhite (Cult Leader): Christians say they’re Christians.
And, yet, Christians don’t quote what Jesus said.
Jesus said, “If you want to know my Father, if you want to move in my Father’s Kingdom,
then shed everything of this world, leave everything behind, and come and follow me.
And, unless you hate everything of this world, your sister, your mother, your brother, everything
of this world, you will not know the Kingdom of Heaven.
You have to graft to me.
You have to cling to me.
I will take you to my Father’s house.”
John Piper (Christian Pastor/Author): “Whoever loves mother or father more than
me, is not worthy of me,” Jesus says.
“Whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.”
Gerald Flurry (Christian Preacher): The Book of Revelation, then, is or was sealed
with seven seals, but how were those seals unlocked and how were they opened so we could
understand it in this end time?
David Koresh (cult leader): I don’t care if you’re an alcoholic.
You know that alcohol is wrong.
I don’t care if you can’t keep your marriage together.
All I care about when our judgment is one thing, “Do you want to know the seven seals?
House of Yahweh character: Shalom, y’all.
Watch carefully and pay close attention, because at the end of storytime, your parents, teachers,
or guardians, just may ask you some questions.
So, pay close attention and learn.
Jesus Camp female director: Now I want everyone to raise your hands, and
we’re going to pray in tongues.
Hallelujah, let’s do it.
Oh, we love you, Jesus, (unintelligible).
Robert Tilton (Christian Evangelist): Now, I’m going to pray in tongues for a moment.
(unintelligible).
Charles Manson: (unintelligible)
Marshall Applewhite: This is your chance.
I am here.
I can take you out of here.
I can lead you into that kingdom level above human.
That can’t happen unless you leave the human world that you’re in and come and follow
me.
Time is short.
Last chance.
David Wilkerson: He said, “I want you to know, the end of
all things is at hand.
It’s right at hand.”
You say, “Well, that was written 2,000 years or so ago.”
Folks, if it were true then, it’s all the more true now.
John Hagee: I assure you, as certainly as my name is John Hagee,
there is a global food shortage on the way.
One fourth of the earth’s population will be slaughtered.
Steven Anderson: I’m not going to back down, and I’m sick
of people not backing me up on this.
And, you know what?
If you’re not going to back us up, then get out of here.
We don’t need your help.
You know what?
We have hundreds of people, hundreds of people here that will not compromise.
And, if you’re not one of them, then get out.
I don’t want to hang around with a bunch of fag hags and a bunch of queer baits, and
a bunch of effeminates.
Get out.
John Piper: Sin is so ugly and so offensive that it justifies
the slaughter of the Canaanites, men, women and children.
Warren Jeffs: I have a desire to speak only truth, that
every word can be believed, and that means I must only speak by the spirit of truth,
the words of the Prophets.
Joel Osteen: This is my Bible.
I am what it says I am.
I have what it says I have.
I can do what it says I can do.
Today I will be taught the Word of God.
I boldly confess, my mind is alert, my heart is receptive, I will never be the same.
In Jesus’ name.
Pat Robertson: Well, when the clock is down to 11:59, I think
that things are getting ready to wrap up.
I do think the earth is hurdling toward some final conclusion.
We all feel that.
Yisrayl Hawkins: Call us for a free booklet, or email us.
Joel Osteen: If you’re ever in our area, please stop by
and be a part of one of our services.
I promise you, we’ll make you feel right at home.
Note found at Jonestown: To whomever finds this note, collect all the tapes,
all the writing, all the history, the story of this movement.
This action must be examined over and over.
We did not want this kind of ending.
We wanted to live, to shine, to bring light to a world that is dying for a little bit
of love.
Stephan Jones: Ask yourself, “What would someone have to
tell you, or what would someone have to do to you to get you to do something that you
couldn’t possibly believe you’re capable of?
And, examine that.
Learn from it.
Don’t judge it.
Don’t stand separate from it.
Be willing to stand in the shoes of the people you’re judging.
And, I hope that 900 plus people, that they died and the way they died, might offer us
something so that their lives won’t be in vain.
(Mad Man in Waco song playing)