Remembering The 51 Day Standoff In Waco, Texas – 25 Years Later

Egging the Branch Davidians On

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Furthermore, during the siege, scholars who study apocalypticism in religious groups were trying to warn the FBI about the dangerous tactics they were currently using. They warned that the way they were going about everything would only reinforce the group’s belief that they were indeed part of a Biblical end-of-the-world scenario and that they were playing an important role. They also noted that adding fuel to the fire would only increase the chances of violence breaking out between the two groups because they believed in their cause so much that they were ready to die for it. Their beliefs were based on end-of-times war and death and the FBI was giving it to them.

Slowly but surely, Koresh began to further detach from reality.