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For Father Joseph Kümmel, the time had come. He didn’t feel sad; he knew from the moment he started the church that there was only going to be one way it could end.
Since day one, he had been in full control. And even recently, when that control had started to slip, he was able to rein it back in and remain in charge. The foundations had been laid long ago, and reinforced regularly ever since. He had long suspected that religion was the purest form of ancient psychology, centuries before the term had even been coined. And that theory had been put into practise, beautifully and perfectly.
He’d had his theory proven early on, when he read the news reports from the Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. There’d been a small tinge of regret at first that Jim Jones had got there before him,
