Une vie vécue : grandir dans une secte

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Flor Edwards est née et a grandi dans le culte sexuel apocalyptique "Les enfants de Dieu". Elle a passé toute son enfance à croire ce que le leader de la secte lui avait dit.

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00:30My name is Flora Edwards and I grew up in the apocalyptic cult known as the Children of God.

01:00The Children of God was a group that started on the shores of Huntington Beach.

01:06I always say it had very humble beginnings.

01:10Father David was the leader.

01:12He was the son of an evangelist preacher.

01:16And he came out to California and wanted to give the young people something to live for.

01:21And it just was a bunch of young people during the 1960s trying to get off of drugs and as they put it high on Jesus.

01:29I always point out the three main teachings of 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, he sort of wanted to adopt this new belief system that sex was a part of God's love.

01:50So he had some very controversial beliefs around sex and the body.

01:54People always want to know how did it turn from something that was good and innocent to something that was actually quite dark.

02:14My answer to that is the adults had to find a way to control the children because we weren't there on our own free will.

02:20They were raising us to basically save the world.

02:34There were a lot of reports of incest within the group or 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.

02:55He had drinking problems.

02:57He was a sex addict, narcissist.

03:01Just all the different things that come with the cult leader.

03:03He was also very charismatic.

03:05He was also very intelligent, very brilliant.

03:07He would not have been able to gather such a large group of people if he didn't have some sort of enticing quality to him.

03:14Leaving the cult was very difficult because we had been completely cut off from the world.

03:22My parents had no education, no money.

03:25Everyone inside was terrified to leave.

03:27It's like they stay and have this community of people or they leave and die basically.

03:33And 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.

03:46People always want like a sad sob story.

03:49There was awful things that went on, but this was my story to tell.

03:54Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

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