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Sex Cult Nun by Faith Jones
fast-paced
4.5
Oh hey. My head hurt a lot last night and I couldn’t deal with screens so I finished Sex Cult Nun by Faith Jones instead.
The title is a little more salacious than the book actually is, first of all. But it’s still really messed up because… religious cults.
In this memoir, Faith Jones tells the story of her upbringing as a member of the Children of God and how nothing seemed weird to her because she was born into it and sheltered from the outside world. Also, her paternal grandfather was the founder and prophet (because there’s always a prophet).
She ends up visiting her “Systemite” grandparents (her mother’s birth family who aren’t in the CoG) and finds herself out The Family (the cult) for a while. She gets to go to normal school and read books and she loves it.
The little taste of education eventually leads her to question what she thought she knew and recognize the abuse she’d been receiving. She eventually breaks away, but it’s not easy. And that education separates her from her whole community.
This book has a ton of trigger/content warnings given the nature of it. SA, r-pe, death of a pet, child abu-e (trying to avoid words that will catch me in filters here). But it’s also really interesting to see that cult mentality and how they keep people. It also makes you so angry at religious hypocrisy. I mean, if you weren’t already.
If you liked Educated by Tara Westover, you will probably like this too.
4.5/5
The title is a little more salacious than the book actually is, first of all. But it’s still really messed up because… religious cults.
In this memoir, Faith Jones tells the story of her upbringing as a member of the Children of God and how nothing seemed weird to her because she was born into it and sheltered from the outside world. Also, her paternal grandfather was the founder and prophet (because there’s always a prophet).
She ends up visiting her “Systemite” grandparents (her mother’s birth family who aren’t in the CoG) and finds herself out The Family (the cult) for a while. She gets to go to normal school and read books and she loves it.
The little taste of education eventually leads her to question what she thought she knew and recognize the abuse she’d been receiving. She eventually breaks away, but it’s not easy. And that education separates her from her whole community.
This book has a ton of trigger/content warnings given the nature of it. SA, r-pe, death of a pet, child abu-e (trying to avoid words that will catch me in filters here). But it’s also really interesting to see that cult mentality and how they keep people. It also makes you so angry at religious hypocrisy. I mean, if you weren’t already.
If you liked Educated by Tara Westover, you will probably like this too.
4.5/5