Church of Lies, Paul T. Brown
Church of Lies, Paul T. Brown
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Church of Lies

Author: Paul T. Brown, Flora Jessop

Narrator: Eve Bianco

Unabridged: 10 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/20/2020


Synopsis

From the Preface: "My name is Flora Jessop. Ive been called apostate, vigilante, and crazy bitch, and maybe I am. But some people call me a hero, and Id like to think theyre right too. If I am a hero, maybe its because every time I can play a part in saving a child or a woman from a life of servitude and degradation, Im saving a little piece of me, too. I was one of twenty-eight children born to my dad and his three wives. Indoctrinated to believe that the outside world was evil, and that I resided   among the righteous, I was destined to marry a man chosen for me by the Prophet. I would then live in harmony with my sister-wives, bear many children, and obey and serve my future husband in this life and throughout eternity. But my innocence didnt last long. While still a child, I understood that the church of the righteous was nothing but a church of lies. When I was eight years old my father sexually molested me for the first time, raping me when I was twelve. I tried to kill myself. Beaten, molested, taunted, and abused by family members alleging they only wanted to save my soul became a daily routine, I ran from this abuse more than once in my early teenseven attempting to cross the desert on foot.   My family hunted me down. I thought government agencies would provide me safety if I reported my father. Instead, police and social services colluded with the FLDS to return me to my family and I ended up back inside polygamy, right where I started." Flora goes on from there to tell the dramatic true story of how she ultimately escaped and has been fighting against frustrating obstacles with hard fought successes in rescuing women and children from the FLDS. It's a story you can't put down.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin

“It's no coincidence that so many cults align themselves with mainstream religions. Like a predatory animal that has evolved to resemble something commonplace and nonthreatening, these organizations understand that the more they appear to be a branch of a familiar institution, the more easily they'l......more

Best line ever from the book: (The police are at Flora's house, trying to get the two runaway girls and Flora is telling them off.) "Dude, I don't know where the hell these kids are, and if I did I would not tell you so you can betray them like the dozens of other children betrayed from Colorado City.......more

Goodreads review by Kavita

Flora Jessop was the first woman to break free from the FLDS and she started the campaign to help other runaways with the help of different activists. I have read memoirs of women fleeing the sect at a much later date and things were much easier for them. Even though they had a lot of trouble with t......more