One, two, three.

Come, come, you saints, no toil nor labor fear.

But with joy, when you're with.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast.

I'm your host, John DeLin. It is July 31st, 2019.

And today we are beginning to broach a very sensitive and what some would say, very important topic.

A very controversial topic.

A topic that has been around for probably three decades, but has been addressed

minimally for a lot of reasons, including the fact that it's incredibly complex.

It's incredibly controversial. It's incredibly sensitive.

And I think a lot of people are scared to talk about it.

But I have had so many people reach out to me over the past 14 years, bringing up this topic that I feel like it's super important to at least give it some brief concise as thoughtful as possible.

And as balanced coverage as I can.

Today, we are going today. I'm going to give just a brief introduction to this topic.

It's just going to be me for this episode.

And then the plan is to bring on some other experts or firsthand witnesses or accounts to help fill in with story, some of the details.

And I'll just get right to it.

And today, the topic of this, what will become a series is the claims of satanic ritual abuse within Mormonism.

And some of you are going to know exactly what I'm talking about.

Others you others of you are going to be like, what the heck? What is he talking about?

This doesn't happen. This isn't a thing.

It's definitely a thing in the sense that it's very pervasive.

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