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Sword and Scale

Episode 86

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

461.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The 20 year anniversary of one of the strangest tales in modern American religious history is quickly approaching. On March 26th, March 26, 1997 Marshall Herff Applewhite led a group of 39 devoted followers to their final destination. In their minds they were headed to a spaceship following the Hale-Bopp Comet where they would be taken and transformed into perfect angelic alien beings, a state in which they would live forever. We're joined by Benjamin E. Zeller, Religious Historian and Author of the book "Heaven's Gate: America's UFO Religion."

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Sort and scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences

0:06.1

Listener discretion is advised

0:08.3

That's their logic right so get ahead working bodies, but they decided it was time to leave their bodies got them where they wanted to go when it was time to depart

0:31.4

Welcome to season four episode 86 of Sort and Scale

0:36.0

A show that reveals that the worst monsters are real

0:53.4

You know there's something inside of us that longs for acceptance and reaches out for community

1:01.0

Perhaps it's part of our evolution something that helped our descendants survive the horrors of nature

1:08.0

Generation after generation

1:10.4

This tribalism which undoubtedly kept our ancestors alive doesn't seem to have changed much in thousands if not tens of thousands of years

1:20.0

We still long to be part of a group

1:22.3

We still segregate ourselves into communities

1:25.4

We still exhibit the same tribal mentality and it's all to apparent nowadays

1:30.4

In the age of social media

1:33.2

We've seen it again and again

1:35.6

Whether the tribes are based on sports or politics

1:39.3

gender race or religion

1:42.2

The problem with tribalism is that all too often the individual is lost

1:47.6

A cult like mentality develops where members lose any semblance of independent critical thought

1:53.8

And simply believe whatever the leader tells them to believe

1:56.7

Whatever their leader wants them to believe

2:00.9

Something like this occurred a few decades ago with a group that called themselves heavens gate

2:06.9

And exactly 20 years ago on March 26th

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