Kevin Maness

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Temple recruitment efforts didn’t always go as smoothly.
Kevin Maness
As I read, I often wonder how I would have behaved if I'd been there. If a 1960s or 1970s adult version of me attended services, met members, maybe met Jim Jones. Would I have been convinced? As I am today, I'm really skeptical of "miracles" and turned off by strong egos. But some of his service work and even belief in his members (I believe you can do this even if you don't believe it yourself) might have hit me hard. And that sense that such a prominent person had time for me and knew about me and paid attention? Even today, that would have power. It's weirdly hard to say for sure what would happen.
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
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