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A review by alexbach
Sex Cult Nun by Faith Jones
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.0
I struggle reading non-fiction, so for this book I had to force myself to continue reading. In the beginning, the author explicitly states that this book will only have a history of the cult Children of God in the first few pages, but the rest will be about her life. I almost closed the book and returned it to the library at that point, because I thought "why do I care reading about the life of some random girl I've never heard of". I'm glad I kept reading and finished this book though!
I always wonder how someone could join a cult, and you hear the answer to that question from people. What we don't normally hear about is the people who were born into the cult without a choice, and the cults lifestyle is all they ever knew. I found reading from this perspective extremely interesting. The weird rules and ideas of the cult aren't something they bought into, but were instead being taught to them by their parents or guardians as what is normal and right.
Throughout the book, you see things from this child perspective of just learning and knowing things through the cult and their parents, and I was shocked thinking "how can she still normalize this now". But I realize later on as an adult is when she was able to have that "ah ha!" moment that what she was being taught her whole life wasn't normal or right.
trigger warning: rape, child abuse
I always wonder how someone could join a cult, and you hear the answer to that question from people. What we don't normally hear about is the people who were born into the cult without a choice, and the cults lifestyle is all they ever knew. I found reading from this perspective extremely interesting. The weird rules and ideas of the cult aren't something they bought into, but were instead being taught to them by their parents or guardians as what is normal and right.
Throughout the book, you see things from this child perspective of just learning and knowing things through the cult and their parents, and I was shocked thinking "how can she still normalize this now". But I realize later on as an adult is when she was able to have that "ah ha!" moment that what she was being taught her whole life wasn't normal or right.
trigger warning: rape, child abuse
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape and Child abuse