Malcolm Gladwell: Why Waco went wrong.

pseudoxristos

Interesting article on Waco. Mentions Jehovah's Witnesses as one of the religions that began as a "Millennial movement".

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/03/31/140331fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=1

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kurtbethel

That was a massive fail, and kicked off a paranoid time in America.
Vidiot

It's very difficult for secular-inclined people (cynicism, maybe?) to truly grasp the idea that even the leaders of ideology-driven authoritarian regimes can be full-on True Believers.