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Seven Deadly Sinners

159: Pride - The Institute in Basic Life Principles

Seven Deadly Sinners

Rachael O'Brien | Morbid Network | Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This episode covers the documentary "Behind the Shiny, Happy People" focusing on the movement that made the Duggars keep on counting: the Institute in Basic Life Principles, and its founder, Bill Gothard Jr.

Some have likened the ministry’s teachings to the fictional HULU series, A Handmaids’ Tale. The documentary depicts the alleged spiritual, psychological, physical and sexual abuse at IBLP programs over the course of decades.

Research and writing this week by Kate Kodman.

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0:15.7

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0:19.6

thought he met his fate by a group of hungry alligators, except that's not what happened.

0:25.2

And after the uncovering of a secret love triangle, the truth would finally be revealed.

0:30.3

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0:55.2

Welcome back to another episode of Seven Deadly Sinners.

1:18.6

I swear, if you can see the list of potential episode ideas we've been compiling over

1:24.0

the years, the lists in the Notes app, the texts, emails between Kate and I, the folders

1:30.6

upon folders on our desktops.

1:33.2

We have years worth of content, squirreled away.

1:37.6

And then you find folks also send us ideas too.

1:42.4

And those get added to our various lists.

1:45.5

But the time has finally come.

1:49.0

I don't think we have ever received as many emails and DMs and Instagram comments asking

1:56.6

us to do this episode.

2:00.6

And in a way, when we first covered the Dugger family last year, I think we all felt a follow-up

2:07.1

episode was inevitable.

2:09.9

At the time, we didn't realize there was a docu-series being put together by Amazon.

2:15.8

And now, enter the shiny, happy people documentary that so many of you have been messaging us

2:23.8

about and wanting our take on.

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