Smith wasn't even the most convincing fraud. While Smith may have convinced his followers to give him their wives and daughters, Jim Jones convinced his followers to give their families the cyanide laced kool-aid. Who can doubt their conviction and belief? How could they do such a thing if they didn't believe with their entire being that it must be true?Dr Exiled wrote: ↑Tue May 03, 2022 1:10 amThese apologists, they don't realize, by design, that fraud victims don't want to admit being dupes and will defend the fraud rather than admit folly. The "beloved" witnesses fell into this and didn't want to admit being dumb enough to be duped by an obvious, perhaps pious fraud.
By DCP's logic, we should all be listening to Jim Jones followers' powerful testimony, shown through their actions, of how much they believed in The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ.