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Folks, welcome back. I'm talking to Carrie Sheffield, who is. boxes. having read the book I'm in law of the story and it is it's the proverbial

cautionary tale of religion gone wrong somebody in this case your father who

is very earnest about his faith,

but who clearly has issues and becomes authoritarian,

authoritarian, diluted, what you call it what you will.

I mean, you said that three of your siblings

have attempted suicide.

That is a staggering thing. I mean that is it's absolutely

staggering. So but the abuse that you live through I want to I want to walk through the

story a little bit just because again I've read it and it's a very powerful. So you talk about growing up in, you know, what what sounds like a fundamentalist Christian home. When I say fundamentalist, forgive me folks, I mean in the in the worst sense because I don't think all fundamentalism is bad, but this is it's the worst kind of caricature when we think of the cartoon version of what secular liberals think of religion. They think of this kind of thing. They think of a very authoritarian father figure brainwashing his kids and they rightly say well I want to rescue these

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