When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Back

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When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Back

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Aug 31, 2019 · 1h 1m 22s

When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Back In When Men Become Gods, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Singular...

When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Back
In When Men Become Gods, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Singular casts a light on a dark corner of religious extremism. He reveals a group of fundamentalists operating in the present-day United States, where teenage girls are kept in virtual bondage in the name of upholding the "sacred principle" of polygamy.

As the leader and self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, a sect of Mormonism based in isolated southern Utah, Warren Jeffs held sway over thousands of followers for nearly a decade. His rule was utterly tyrannical. In addition to coercing young girls into polygamous marriages with older men, Jeffs reputedly took scores of wives, many of whom were his father's widows. Television, radio, and newspapers were shunned, creating a hidden community where polygamy was prized above all else.

But in 2007, after a two-year manhunt that landed him on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List, Jeffs's reign was forcefully ended. He was convicted of rape as an accomplice for his role in arranging a marriage between a fourteen-year-old girl and her nineteen-year-old first cousin.

In When Men Become Gods, Edgar Award nominee Stephen Singular traces Jeffs's rise to power and the concerted effort that led to his downfall. It was a movement championed by law enforcement, private investigators, the Feds, and perhaps most vocal of all, a group of former polygamous wives seeking to liberate young women from the arranged marriages they'd once endured. The book offers new revelations into a nearly impenetrable enclave---a place of nineteenth-century attire, inbreeding, and eerie seclusion---providing readers with a rare glimpse into a tradition that's almost a century old, but that has only now been exposed.

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Mack

4 years ago

Amazing show, thanks Ed

Tracy

4 years ago

Yep! Another winner in the 📚's.

Sask Leafs Fan

4 years ago

Great show!

Kat

4 years ago

ok, you're right 😄

The Opperman Report

4 years ago

no one ever believes me 😞

The Opperman Report

4 years ago

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4331478/

Kat

4 years ago

i think that's the show about the Amish

Tracy

4 years ago

I like these two. Great information. Love follwing the Wonderhussy too.

Tracy

4 years ago

Part of Mae's exposé was the Mormon's database on everyone...began long long ago...today, it's basically Ancestry .com where you pay to give your information away. The Hughes fortune.....is said to have landed here.

The Opperman Report

4 years ago

hi guys

Sask Leafs Fan

4 years ago

Lol finally got on a night shift where I could listen live

Tracy

4 years ago

That is a CLUE that all is not right with the general narrative. Mae did some FANTASTIC work on the Mormons and Howard Hughes

Tracy

4 years ago

Here is another prime example...UTAH. The Mormons and polygamy. This group, doesn't have to adhere to the rules that the rest of the country must.