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ENTRANCE:
MAN: 123 Testing 123 testing
JONES ENTRANCE:
You look out over this vast universe tonight-and vast it is, with a hundred billion planets in our milky way system, and then a hundred billion more Milky Way systems like ours, that means a hundred billion times a hundred billion-and if you travelled at the speed of light for one year you'd go something like six trillion miles. That won't get you but one of the three trillion miles you've got to get to get beyond where you can see.
(snapping his fingers to count the seconds) You've got to travel, like this, 186,000 miles a second for three hundred million years and you still won't find the end of space. Now where in the hell are you going?
you can't get to heaven by flying to it.
Astronomers have been looking out for aeons and aeons and they never have found any heaven.
We have done away with illusions of heavens that are for tomorrow, or gods that are out in space. We must work out the plan of salvation. You must fight to save this earth, and make the kingdom of this earth, the kingdom of hell, become the kingdom of God socialism.
(voice rises) we know where heaven is.
Heavens and angels with wings, the streets of gold, and tomorrow. I want to tell you. It reeks us, it makes us sick, it's a stench in our nostrils. You people who live in Tomorrowland. You make me sick. I've had too much Tomorrowland. Some of us have sweat blood to make it a Today, to make it today as the day of salvation. We sweat too much blood. And we shall not go back.
(Shouts) I'll quit church, I hope you do, by dammit. If you don't
like the truth, that's what you need to do. If you don't want to help us
fight for what's right, if you're here because of that stupid carryover
religion, if you've still got that falseness that we have been using to try
to build a better world, if you're still caught up in religion, by dammit,
we'd be better off without you anyway.
There's only one way to get away from the words of God
Almighty, Honesty, Justice that I am, the God of this nation, the only way
to get away from me, is to get out from under the sound of my voice and out
from under this roof and even then, I will be there. You can make your beds
in all your hells, and I'll be there. You can go to your imaginary heavens,
and I will be there. There is no space vacant from my presence, for I am
here, there, and everywhere. Socialism. God Almighty.
(Shouts) Let not my words deceive you. Let my tongue, that may be
somewhat ill-styled, according to your imaginary legends, let it not delude
you from recognizing, that all you said God to be, and more, is addressing
you in this atmosphere, right now. God Almighty. Socialism.
(Normal tone)
What is the use-- use for rig--
ri-- rigid doctrines, rituals, commandments? There's only one use. Here is
the use. Knowing this, that the law is not made for righteous man.
(pause)
(Shouts) Law is not made for good folks. Good folks don't need God's
myths, fables, laws, regula-- I'm saying a whole lot of truth, and some of
you are not getting it--
(Pause) (Shouts) Good folks don't need God's commandments, laws, structure,
religion. Good folks don't need it. Righteous man does not need religion.
Righteous man does not need religion. Only ungodly, only unrighteous, only
devils need religion. Religion is an opiate to those that are righteous.
Religion is stench in the nostrils of those that are holy. Religion is hell
to those that are godic. Religion is dirty to all those that are in the
knowledge of truth.
(voice comes back to normal)
We wouldn't have a church meeting, but the attorneys, like Hallinan outside
who is an atheist and a socialist and others said, don't stop it, and Dr.
Goodlett yesterday said, please have your church meetings, that's your only
security.
right now it's our only protection for freedom of assembly.
(The Jonestown Reenactment wishes to credit Rebecca Moore and Fielding M. McGehee III for transcriptions of many of the segments used here.)