Hello everyone and welcome to the Girls Camp podcast Patreon Girls Camp Unplugged. I'm your host,

Haley Rawl, and I have been truly dying to sit down and talk to you about this new documentary

on Netflix called Trust Me, The False Prophet. I expected this documentary to feel extreme based on the premise,

which if you haven't seen it yet, I will give you a rundown so you know what we're talking about.

But in a nutshell, it's about a cult within the FLDS cult and some crazy shit goes down. What I didn't expect as much as was the case for me

watching as someone who grew up Mormon is how familiar a lot of it felt. And I say that with a

disclaimer right here at the top, my upbringing in the Mormon church was not this. It was

not plural marriage. It was not as extreme. However, there was a lot of things that felt very

familiar. Language, doctrine, cultural things. And obviously, that makes sense to a certain extent, considering this

cult that the documentary is documenting stems from an FLDS group, which the FLDS group stems from

mainstream Mormonism. So a lot of the material that this particular cult leader named Sam Bateman was pulling from

does have its roots in Mormonism. It's already obviously unsettling to watch an extreme

cult documentary. This one is really dark, really crazy, but it's particularly unsettling to

have it feel sort of at least familiar. And so we are going to be talking about all of that.

There's also just a lot to talk about in addition to those comparisons. One of the biggest

similarities that struck me watching this splinter group and comparing it to mainstream Mormonism is the danger of living

revelation. This is Mormonism's pretty much, at least one of Mormonism's unique value ads,

is we're not like every other religion because we have a prophet on earth today who can

speak to the people on behalf of God and tell them what God cares about right here, right now.

Now, in theory, that sounds nice. Sounds nice to have further access to God. And obviously,

the Bible was written a really long time ago.

It's up to interpretation. There's a lot of reasons that it sounds nice to have continued revelations,

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