They'd never have the balls to follow Jim Jones, he asked his people to actually do things.
While I do believe religious belief and breeding go hand in hand, I think thoughtlessness and breeding are conjoined twins. Religion is just a pretty wrapping for not thinking or taking responsibility for your own actions. Don't want to take the blame yourself? Jebus will forgive. Feel bad about the shitty way you've treated people? Just "open your heart" on your death bed and off to heaven with you. Accidentally fell into a prostitute and then gave your wife the AIDS? Go to confession, be absolved of your sins. Don't want to have to explain to your children why some people are gay, insane, freaks or whatever? Send them to sunday school so the nice priest can assure them everyone who is different is going to hell, and if you tell anyone about this other little game, you're going to hell too.
"It truly is the one commonality that every designation of humans you can think of has, there's at least one asshole."
--Me