Sex Cult Nun: Faith Jones on Breaking Way from the Children of God. (Part 2)
A Little Bit Culty
Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Here’s part two of our chat with Sex Cult Nun author/memoirist Faith Jones, who was raised in the infamous Children of God sect. Warning: This episode gets into gritty terrain including discussions of child abuse and sexual assault. Listener discretion advised.
Additional Articles about other survivors of the Children of God:
Rolling Stone: How I Escaped From a Religious Sex Cult and Ended Up in the Army
The Guardian: Life after a sex cult: 'If I’m not a member of this religion any more, then who am I?'
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| 0:00.0 | The views and opinions expressed by a little bit cultier, those are the hosts, |
| 0:03.4 | and don't reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. |
| 0:06.6 | Any of the, quote, fire content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors, or authors |
| 0:11.5 | of the opinion and are not intended to malign a religion, a group, a club, an organization, |
| 0:17.3 | business individual, anyone or anything, unless they're... |
| 0:20.2 | You're a douchebag. |
| 0:20.9 | Yeah, we're not doctors, psychologists, therapists, licensed counselors, or shamans, |
| 0:25.6 | even though you kind of think you are sometimes. |
| 0:27.3 | I'm like an urban shaman, okay? |
| 0:29.2 | Good talk. |
| 0:39.4 | Hey everybody, Sarah Edmonds in here. |
| 0:41.8 | And I'm Anthony Ames, aka Nippy, Sarah's husband, and you're listening to a little bit |
| 0:47.3 | cultier, aka a LBC. |
| 0:49.8 | A podcast about what happens when devotion goes to the dark side. |
| 0:53.2 | We've been there, and back again, a little about us, true story, we met and fell in love |
| 0:59.3 | and then we woke up and got the hell out of dodge. |
| 1:01.7 | And the whole thing was captured in the HBO documentary series The Bow, now in its second season. |
| 1:07.0 | I also wrote about our experience in my memoir, SCART, the true story of how I escaped |
| 1:11.9 | next year, the cult that bound my life. |
| 1:13.9 | Look at us, couple of married podcasters who just happened to have a weekly date night. |
| 1:18.4 | Are we interview experts and advocates and things like cult awareness and mind control? |
| 1:22.6 | Oh wait, wait, this does not count toward date night, babe. |
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