HORRENDOUS MASS SUICIDE - Herbert W Armstrong - January 1979

Herbert W Armstrong

Over nine hundred dead in Guyana. How to explain it? Never before such a ghastly, weird, unthinkable nightmare! What does it portend? We have reached the time of frightening, NEVER-BEFORE happenings. How can we explain such world-shaking evils? In those more than 900 people was the first law of human nature - self-preservation. If in humans there is an instinct at all, it is that of self-preservation. God's Word says, "no man ever yet hated his own flesh" (Eph. 5:29). How, then, explain a ritualistic "religious" ceremony, preceded by rehearsal drills, wherein parents fed the deadly cyanide potion to their children? Then as the children writhed in piercing agony, frothing in convulsions, unable to catch their breath, calmly administer the suicidal drink to themselves. UNTHINKABLE! How explain it? - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library