Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America

Summary: "...'Why Waco?' is at pains to prove that a fuller understanding of the Branch Davidian religion might have averted the final disaster. Understanding, however, has its limits. As the authors themselves note, even many Seventh-day Adventists, who certainly had the background to understand, adopted the conventional image of Koresh as a dangerous cult leader. That's because, as far as they were concerned, he was not who... he pretended to be but a classic false prophet, as denounced in both Hebrew and Christian Scripture." [read more]