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Originally posted by FugeeI've spent a bit of time with Texas evangelical Christians but none of them went down in flames and bullets after a stand-off with BATF. If they were so close, there would have been huge support for them in the evangelical community -- and there wasn't. As discussed in other posts about documentaries and the news, what you see isn't always the truth.
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Originally posted by evenodds
They were a splinter of Seventh Day Adventists. Are Adventists considered evangelic Christians?
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The media had a choice in how they chose to describe the Branch Davidians. Church or Cult? Community or Compound? Members or Followers? I don't believe what the Branch Davidians believed, but they were far from the only people in Texas that (1) interpreted the Bible literally, (2) were particularly interested in eschatology, the study of the "End Times," (3) had a healthy distrust of the federal government, and (4) owned guns.
Maybe evangelical Christians in Texas thought the Davidians were a cult. Maybe that belief rests on inflamatory news coverage and reports that Koresh considered himself a "prophet." The documentary posits that what we saw in the news about Waco wasn't always the truth. So we're all in agreement on that point. I don't take the documentary, or the Bible, or Bob Dylan songs, as literal truth either.
