Linked by blood -- The Doctrine of Blood Atonement first taught by early leaders of the LDS church such as Brigham Young (left), was repudiated by the Mormon Church in 1978. The doctrine remains a core belief in the FLDS Church however. It was taught by Prophets Rulon Jeffs (center) and, according to sources close to the church, is still being taught by his son, Warren Jeffs (right), to this day. ~ The Eldorado Success, 2004
Blood Atonement and the FLDS
http://coramnonjudice.blogspot.com/2008/09/blood-atonement-and-flds.html
Over on Ron's Insanity, Ron was talking about Uncle Warren knowingly wanting to violate the law and Pliggy (Al Holm) said that Blood Atonement was not against the law and then said "Blood atonement is a CIVIL law." This made me wonder exactly what the FLDS position was on Blood Atonement.
It seems that the Phoenix New Times has several articles addressing this, but the most telling one is this one. On page 4, it is reported that Jeffs was concerned about building a high temperature furnace so that they could begin to practice blood atonement - the killing of innocents that have in some manner displeased the so-called prophet.
In addition to the Phoenix New Times, the Eldorado Success has published information on Jeffs and blood atonement, the blog of Kathy Jo Nicholson (who believes her brother was killed on Jeffs order), and there is even a mention in USA Today.
We know that John William Nicholson, who was reportedly about to file a lawsuit against Warren Jeffs, mysteriously died. We know that there have been other unusual occurrences within the sect.
As Ron has shown, the FLDS doesn't care about violating the law - they believe that they can do whatever they want.
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This just made me remember this post on a mysterious FLDS member death. Spooky!
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