Religion and Delusion: Branch Davidians and the Siege of Waco

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53. In Masada, Zionists - religious extremists? - would not cooperate with another, Roman religion

Rather than cooperate with another religion - which peacefully inherited Jerusalem in 64 BC - religious/nationalist extremist Zionists cornered themselves and killed themselves. Rather than cooperate with another religion earlier on. They could have made a peaceful cooperation agreement with them earlier; but they would simply not cooperate with other faiths, and administrations.

Today, even some secular Jews regard the Zionists of Masada, as extremist fundamentalists. And they no longer support them; any more than they support say, Hassidic beliefs.

So yes, this case of mass suicide might be considered to be related to other mass religious suicides.

In fact, the Jones Town suicides made analogies to Masada; claiming that the threat of government takeover or closure of Jamestown necessitated ... drinking the poison Kool-aid.

Masada in other words, is not necessarily the exception that proves the rule.

And by the way? Note here the strange affection religion has for death; in this case, suicide. Championing "martyrdom" champions death, after all.