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Jim Jones was an avowed [[atheist]].<ref>[http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=13143 An untitled collection of reminiscences by Jim Jones]</ref> Jones was frustrated with opposition to [[communism]] within the United States which lead him to ask, "How can I demonstrate my [[Marxism]]? The thought was, infiltrate the [[church]]."<ref>Wessinger, Catherine (2000), How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate, Seven Bridges Press, ISBN 978-1-889119-24-3</ref><ref>Jones, Jim. "[http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27339 Transcript of Recovered FBI tape Q 134]". Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University</ref>
Jones was never spiritually-minded, but as a young man he did attend a Methodist church because serving the physical well-being of the poor appealed to him in the way it took place in that church's form of evangelical community outreach. But the particular church he eventually chose to "infiltrate" that lasted until the massacre was the [[Disciples of Christ]] denomination, which at the time gave their ministers a great deal of independence in operating their member churches. But that leeway was limited with regard to doctrine, and a Disciples of Christ minister who stopped by Jones' front while on a roadtrip had to be intercepted so he wouldn't be able to attend the church "services" of Marxist indoctrination and expose them. [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] ([[User talk:VargasMilan|talk]]) Wednesday, 03:32, 13 May 2020 (EDT)
The Temple openly preached to established members that "religion is an opiate to the people."<ref>Jones, Jim. [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27318 "Transcript of Recovered FBI tape Q 1053."] ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.</ref> Accordingly, "those who remained drugged with the opiate of religion had to be brought to enlightenment - socialism."<ref>Layton 1999, page 53.</ref> In that regard, Jones also openly stated that he "took the church and used the church to bring people to atheism." <ref>Jones, Jim. [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27580 "Transcript of Recovered FBI tape Q 757."] ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.</ref> Jones often mixed those concepts, such as preaching that "If you're born in this church, this socialist revolution, you're not born in sin. If you're born in [[capitalist]] America, [[racist]] America, [[fascist]] America, then you're born with a big d***o in sin. But if you're born in socialism, you're not born in [[sin]]."<ref>Jones, Jim. [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27318 "Transcript of Recovered FBI tape Q 1053."] ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University. {{cite web |url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/TapeTranscripts/Q757.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=|deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5wTIqQUvL?url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/TapeTranscripts/Q757.html |archivedate=2019-01-30|df= }}</ref> Speaking to the Jonestown community, Jones declared: {{quotebox|"I brought you here to regroup, recoup, rehabilitate and gain strength, and militancy, and a proper education in [[Marxist-Leninism]], which you had never picked up, even though I was avowedly, openly Marxist-Leninist and atheist, you have never picked it up, for the most part, in the United States, except for a handful."<ref>The Jonestown Institute, “[http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27388 Q235 Transcript],” Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple.</ref>}} Jim Jones ridiculed the [[Bible]], stomped it on the floor in front of his flock, and instructed his followers to use it as toilet paper when their supply ran out in Jonestown.
