Voglio vivere così: La vita in una setta apocalittica

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Flor Edwards è nata e cresciuta nella setta apocalittica dei Bambini di Dio, che credeva che la fine del mondo sarebbe avvenuta nel 1993, quando lei avrebbe compiuto 12 anni.

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00:00Sì

00:30and says, you know what, I'm going to join this cult

00:32no one even knew it was a cult

00:33until way later

00:34My name is Flora Edwards

00:55and I grew up in the apocalyptic cult

00:57known as the Children of God

01:00The Children of God was a group

01:03that started on the shores of Huntington Beach

01:05I always say it had very humble beginnings

01:08Father David was the leader

01:12he was the son of an evangelist preacher

01:15and he came out to California

01:17and wanted to give the young people

01:20something to live for

01:21and it just was a bunch of young people

01:23during the 1960s

01:24trying to get off of drugs

01:26and as they put it high on Jesus

01:28I always point out the three main teachings

01:31of the Children of God

01:32one, it was apocalyptic

01:34so they believed that the world was going to end

01:37the date for the end was 1993

01:39the second one was that he believed that the West was evil

01:44and the third belief

01:45he sort of wanted to adopt this new belief system

01:48that sex was a part of God's love

01:50so he had some very controversial beliefs

01:52around sex and the body

01:53people always want to know how did it turn from something that was good and innocent

02:11to something that was actually quite dark

02:14my answer to that is

02:15the adults had to find a way to control the children

02:19because we weren't there on our own free will

02:20they were raising us to basically save the world

02:23there were a lot of reports of incest within the group

02:37or encouraging children to have sex with other children

02:42there were incidents where even within Father David's own family incest

02:48he had this conflict between his commitment to serve God and his sexual desire

02:53he had drinking problems, he was a sex addict, a narcissist

03:00just all the different things that come with the cult leader

03:03he was also very charismatic, he was also very intelligent, very brilliant

03:07he would not have been able to gather such a large group of people

03:10if he didn't have some sort of enticing quality to him

03:14please can I be a member of your club

03:17leaving the cult was very difficult

03:19because we had been completely cut off from the world

03:22my parents had no education, no money

03:24everyone inside was terrified to leave

03:27it's like they stay and have this community of people

03:30or they leave and die basically

03:32and a lot of them actually, they ended up committing suicide when they left

03:35I did realize that there was tremendous beauty in my childhood

03:45people always want like a sad sob story

03:48there was awful things that went on

03:51but this was my story to tell

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