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onager

(9,356 posts)
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 04:16 PM Oct 2015

"Prophet's Prey" on Showtime

Over the weekend the Sheowtime cable channel premiered "Prophet's Prey" - a documentary about "Prophet" Warrren Jeffs and his Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints (FLDS).

End of the show makes it abundantly clear that Jeffs is still pulling strings and running the church even though he is sitting in prison.

That'll happen when you make recordings of the wedding night with your 12-year-old bride.

Many of the people interviewed in the show are members of Jeffs' immediate family. They all hate the scumbag. The nephew he molested from a young age. The sister he exiled from the church, so that she didn't see her kids for years. Even Wife #63 makes an appearance. Jeffs married her at the relatively old age - for him - of 16.

Altogether a fascinating look under a very dark and slimy rock. Well worth watching.

http://www.sho.com/sho/movies/titles/3423887/prophets-prey

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"Prophet's Prey" on Showtime (Original Post) onager Oct 2015 OP
Ew. I just watched the trailer. progressoid Oct 2015 #1
like any cult some of the enablers are as evil as the leader olddots Oct 2015 #2

progressoid

(50,734 posts)
1. Ew. I just watched the trailer.
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 04:32 PM
Oct 2015

I know someone who has Showtime, but I'm not sure I want to see that. Creepy shit.

I remember listening to a fascinating and disturbing Fresh Air interview with one of his nephews.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104359348

 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
2. like any cult some of the enablers are as evil as the leader
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 05:59 PM
Oct 2015

I never "got " religion because of the mass hysteria based on fear of complaining about what you know is bullshit .

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