395 - Ervil LeBaron: The Mormon Manson

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Ervil LeBaron was raised by a cult leader... would have several brothers who were cult leaders...and would father several more cult leaders. And out of all of them, he was the worst. The Mormon Manson loved to call for blood atonement - ordering the execution of between 20 and 30 people, many of them rival cult leaders.

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0:00.0	What gives one person the right to kill another?
0:03.0	Most people around the world would agree that one has the right to use lethal force for self-defense, I imagine.
0:09.0	Millions believe in capital punishment for egregious crimes.
0:13.1	An eye for an eye was, and in some cases still is, an accepted religious justification for
0:17.5	killing another person.
0:19.4	And also historically, there has always been a small subset of the population who believe they have been
0:24.0	granted the right to kill from God that God chose them to eliminate certain people
0:29.5	who did not comply with God's divine purpose.
0:32.7	This belief applies to both individual religious extremists
0:35.8	and also to cults.
0:37.2	Today's episode centers around blood atonement,
0:40.4	a practice from the early LDS church preached by primarily early leader Brigham Young
0:44.9	and now long considered invalid by church officials.
0:47.8	Blood atonement was used or was at least to be used in theory
0:52.0	when a church member had committed such a terrible
0:54.9	sin that they now had no chance of getting into heaven unless blood was shed.
1:02.1	Their blood.
1:03.0	In these cases, a blood atonement killing was seen as merciful.
1:07.0	While we don't know if any blood atonement killings were actually carried out by early LDS leaders,
1:12.0	we do know that Fringe FLDS maniacs have used blood
1:15.7	atonement to justify many murders since. We met some of those maniacs, the Lafferty
1:20.5	brothers, not that long ago here in episode 371 the school of the
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