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Now welcome your host who definitely passes the smell test, Eric Montexas.

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I'm talking to Kerry Sheffield, who is the author of a book, Motor Home Prophecies.

Carrie, you know, having read the book, I'm in awe of the story.

And it is 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, 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, 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 kids from this. As the Massachusetts

authorities tried to rescue you and your siblings from your father when you were very young.

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