8/5/2023 0 Comments Watch prophets prey![]() ![]() The four-episode series serves as a timeline of Jeffs’ increasingly heinous acts as he schemes to seize more and more control over the community-as well as his eventual criminal charges, evading arrest and criminal trial-intercut with devastating tableaux described by those subject to Jeffs’ cruelty. Sam Brower, who wrote one of the definitive works on Warren Jeffs, Prophet’s Prey, is interviewed for Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, proclaiming that, at one time, “Without a doubt, Short Creek was the most lawless town in America.” The Netflix docu-series takes a multi-pronged approach, telling a broad story of Jeffs’ impact, by speaking both with former FLDS members who survived his reign as prophet to provide insight and emotion and with law enforcement, journalists and other outsiders who provide perspective, context and details from their investigations into Jeffs’ crimes. But some things in life are more important than being happy. It is an impossible dilemma illustrated by the final lines of Jon Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven (the book on which the TV show was based), spoken by DeLoy Bateman, who decided to leave the FLDS after losing his faith: “If you want to know the truth, I think people within the religion-people who live here in Colorado City-are probably happier, on the whole, than people on the outside. “They make you live in fear all of the time.” For many, they saw leaving the faith as a choice between personal integrity or their eternal salvation…and they chose integrity. For some, that catalyst was FLDS leader Warren Jeffs’ forcing young girls into underage marriages or his rigid restrictions on day-to-day activities, appearance and even gun ownership. They were members of the FLDS in the Short Creek area (an FLDS settlement on the Utah-Arizona border, encompassing the towns of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Ariz.) and are now telling the stories of the one-atrocity-too-far that finally spurred them to leave the faith and the community they had known for their entire lives. ![]() The new Netflix docu-series about the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints Church (FLDS) begins with the people who had had enough. Retrieved March 10, 2021.The last episode of FX’s Under the Banner of Heaven aired this month, and if you find yourself wanting more to watch about the world of fundamentalist Mormonism, Netflix has a new documentary series out, Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey.
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