Cause 1 Jeremy Morris, Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge believes that religion need to adapt to the changes in society and technology which has given rise to revivalism. People will decipher the reading of their religious text differently according to the changes they may see around them. This adapting process brought the rise of new and altered versions of different religions and with how much things have changed we see an increase in the amount of this happening (Bebbington, 2007).
Cause 2 The rise of cults during the 1970s made the people of the United States suspecting and cautious when it came to the founding of new religious beliefs. The leader of the People's Temple, Jim Jones, was one of the leaders of a cult during this time. Jim Jones used the Bible and twisted around the passages and scripture in it to persuaded people to follow him as their messiah. Being the charismatic leader that he was he used his luring personality to gain political power, wealth and respect. He convinced his follower to come to a compound in Guyana where he a then convinced his follower to commit mass suicide (Sumpter, 1994).
Cause 1 The Branch Davidian were a group broken off from the Seventh-day Adventists originally founded by Victor Houteff. The Branch Davidian believed in the second coming of Christ and an approaching apocalypse. The Branch Davidian isolated themselves in a commune called Mount Carmel Center in Waco Texas. This isolated community along with the very little knowledge known about the Branch Davidian lead to the people and government in believing that they were a cult (Wood, 1993).
Cause 2 Vernon Howell also known as David Koresh became the leader of the Branch Davidian in 1986 and considered himself to be the Messiah, just as Jim Jones did before he convinced his followers to commit mass suicide. The days leading up to the standoff both the ATF and the FBI accused David Koresh along with his follower of having an arsenal of firearms in their possession. Some of the firearms were thought to be illegally modified to be fully automatic. It was also reported that there was child abuse happening with in the compound. These accusations gave the ATF and FBI probable cause to search the compound (Wood, 1993).
Cause 3 The idea that the Branch Davidian may be a cult with an arsenal of fully automatic weapons that have radical apocalyptic beliefs made the people of Waco and government see the Branch Davidian as great threat. The fear and lack of knowledge of the potential threat that was the Branch Davidians lead to the ATF and the FBI to move in too quickly and without a warrant. The action of the ATF and the FBI lead to some conventional issues pertaining to the right to bear arms and the freedoms to religious beliefs (Wood, 1993).
Cause 1
Jeremy Morris, Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge believes that religion need to adapt to the changes in society and technology which has given rise to revivalism. People will decipher the reading of their religious text differently according to the changes they may see around them. This adapting process brought the rise of new and altered versions of different religions and with how much things have changed we see an increase in the amount of this happening (Bebbington, 2007).
Cause 2
The rise of cults during the 1970s made the people of the United States suspecting and cautious when it came to the founding of new religious beliefs. The leader of the People's Temple, Jim Jones, was one of the leaders of a cult during this time. Jim Jones used the Bible and twisted around the passages and scripture in it to persuaded people to follow him as their messiah. Being the charismatic leader that he was he used his luring personality to gain political power, wealth and respect. He convinced his follower to come to a compound in Guyana where he a then convinced his follower to commit mass suicide (Sumpter, 1994).
Cause 1
The Branch Davidian were a group broken off from the Seventh-day Adventists originally founded by Victor Houteff. The Branch Davidian believed in the second coming of Christ and an approaching apocalypse. The Branch Davidian isolated themselves in a commune called Mount Carmel Center in Waco Texas. This isolated community along with the very little knowledge known about the Branch Davidian lead to the people and government in believing that they were a cult (Wood, 1993).
Cause 2
Vernon Howell also known as David Koresh became the leader of the Branch Davidian in 1986 and considered himself to be the Messiah, just as Jim Jones did before he convinced his followers to commit mass suicide. The days leading up to the standoff both the ATF and the FBI accused David Koresh along with his follower of having an arsenal of firearms in their possession. Some of the firearms were thought to be illegally modified to be fully automatic. It was also reported that there was child abuse happening with in the compound. These accusations gave the ATF and FBI probable cause to search the compound (Wood, 1993).
Cause 3
The idea that the Branch Davidian may be a cult with an arsenal of fully automatic weapons that have radical apocalyptic beliefs made the people of Waco and government see the Branch Davidian as great threat. The fear and lack of knowledge of the potential threat that was the Branch Davidians lead to the ATF and the FBI to move in too quickly and without a warrant. The action of the ATF and the FBI lead to some conventional issues pertaining to the right to bear arms and the freedoms to religious beliefs (Wood, 1993).