Koresh was nothing more than Jim Jones. If you have no intent to harm yourself our your followers, walking out on the first day, when confronted would have convinced people. Koresh didn't care if his own people started the fire or if the government did. He wanted the drama so that we would still be speaking about him today.

He backed out on many deals made by the government. I am not saying that the final reaction by our government was the right reaction. I am saying Koresh was the one that didn't have to let it go that far. He had it within himself to tell his followers to walk out. His henchmen fired at the feds and killed several.

His mothers death is merely a side issue to his circus and certainly another nail in the coffen of the claim that god is all loving, all knowing and all powerfull. I am sure that the officers killed might have believed in god, and the followers did as well. What kind of moral god would allow a fight just to watch the bloodbath on his behalf?

One that requires sacrifices in his name.