The Dark Side of Providence...?
So... this is the Providentiary.
I guess from a perspective Warren Jeffs has incarnated the shadow of popular religion, as we have understood it. The man who would claim to come in the name of Christ instead profanes his name with the living will of the readiness state Jesus decried. He took the road Jesus forsook of himself in the wilderness; the road, it would seem, of Satan.
Is this man an instance of Satan...? Only time will tell.
Personally I think that he has abused the comfort function of religion, brainwashing people into believing that the inferior reality he has granted them is the best they can ever hope for, when otherwise they would feel a better reality is theirs if they would only reach out to take it. That, to me, is the ultimate sin of any religious authority.