In 1978, more than 900 people consumed drinks laced with cyanide and committed suicide. They were obeying their leader, a man named Jim Jones. Jim Jones was the founder of a cult called The Peoples Temple. There was nothing original about the cult. Its credo was a mixture of Christian rhetoric and socialist ideology. Jones was a charismatic orator. If you have charisma and eloquence, you can get people to do anything, provided you know how to wield religion effec...