Hey, everybody. This is Darryl Cooper and you're listening to the Martermade podcast.

You're about to hear the fifth episode of God's Socialist, the Rise and Fall of People's

Temple, better known as the Jonestown Suicide Cult. If you haven't heard the previous episodes

in this series, I highly recommend you go back and start with the prologue and work your

way up from there chronologically. It's a very deep story and you'll get a lot more

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we go. I can tend to die for my beliefs. So cut off my head and make me a martyr. The

people will always remember it. No. Don't forget.

God is a thought. God is an idea. It is a place. It is somewhere. Hell does exist.

But it's a reference to something that transcends all things.

I remember a while back. I was watching one of Jordan Peterson's lectures on the early

books of the Bible. Now I'm a fan of Peterson. I like him a lot. He seems to have mostly made

it through the gauntlet of early controversy that engulfed him. But back in those early

days, I mean, it was a hurricane. I don't know if you were paying attention. It was crazy.

I happened to get turned on them very early. I was actually one of his first $50 Patreon

subscribers, which is brutal because the $50 level was supposed to get me a 30 minute

skype chat with him. But before I got that set up, I went overseas for work and by the

time I got back, he'd blown up and was inaccessible. So there's a missed opportunity there.

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