Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years As a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult

Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years As a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult | Miriam Williams | A Brave, Rewarding Story Of Redemption

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	Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years As a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult Miriam Williams William Morrow & Company, 1998 - 297 pages average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An important book

There has been written many books about Children of God/The Family but this is certainly the best I have read. It is nuanced, and gives a very convincing picture of the life in this group. It is free from the stereotypes in much anti-cult literature - the author describes humans caught up in a bizarre and abusive cult but she doesn't demonize them, not even the leaders. The book is valuable for anyone interested to learn about abusive cults, but even to those that want to learn about preserving human dignity in an abusive environment. It can highly be recommended.

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A Brave, Rewarding Story Of Redemption

Ironic, that in her search for a meaningful life and God, the author lost her way for a time, but came back, survived, and triumphed. If she reads this, I would like her to know that I found her story inspiring. May God grant me the strength to face my trivial problems.

enlightning, fascinating, troubling

This is a fascinating and sad account of the author's journey from being a rebellious teenage intellectual to being caught up in a suffocating cult. The pseudo-Christian organization, known as "The Children of God" claimed 20,000 adherents at it's peak. The book details her slow realization of the web of deception and depravity that ensnarl her and describes her journey back to a life of appropriate human relationships.

Semantic snapshots include the rebuke she received from cult leaders for the sin of having a difficult labor and delivery; her cult directed descent into "flirty fishing", perhaps better described as "hooking for Jesus", and the bizarre manner of the cults leader and founder, "Mo" David.

David lead the cult from it's founding in the mid-60's until his death in 1994. From the book I can only conclude that the reason he did not die at a younger age was the time it took to construct a special place for him in h! ell.

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It is not what I thought but it is still a great book.

I had first heard about this book on the Leeza show and after hearing Miriam's story I knew this was a book I would be interested in reading. Although the show made the book seem much more gruesome and interesting (which it wasn't), it was still an okay book. Maybe I just couldn't relate to it. It really makes you wonder and feel scared that something like this could happen and still is.

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