Faith Jones > Quotes

“My grandfather, like many leaders, was not content with just sharing his message; he had to control how people lived it. This is the line where even a good philosophy can become a violation.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“In 2010, it disbanded its communes, releasing into mainstream society thousands of people who’d never held a job or finished school.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“The only way to logically determine what, if anything, is actually true is to be open to the possibility that none of it is. If it’s true, you don’t have to protect it—questioning it deeply only reveals more and strengthens it.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“Never again will I wait for someone else to hand me my power. I’m able to move forward only when I acknowledge that what I do is up to me.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“My parents tried harder than most to be good parents and good people, but this is the danger when you believe something false: you will act in ways that harm and violate others, even if you intend to do good. This is why we must actively check our most cherished beliefs against logic, against an accurate standard.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“Boys get semen and girls get their periods. If God didn't intend them to start having sex then they wouldn't be able to procreate at that age. He then expanded this in 'The devil hates sex and God loves it', saying there is nothing in the world at all wrong with sex as long as it's practiced in love. Whatever it is or whoever it's with, no matter who or what age or what relative or what manner.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

“He used sophisticated methods, employed by communist revolutions, like self-criticism and public approval or reprimand, to manipulate his followers’ daily lives for “their own good.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“Kissing and being affectionate is how we show God's love. Are you going to be unloving?" His voice drops on the last question and I hear the displeasure that signals punishment. There's nothing I can say. Of course I believe that I should show people God's love. Of course I want to make Jesus happy.
"Open your mouth," he orders.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

“I feel like I started life as an old lady. I was robbed of my teen hood, and by the time I was seventeen, I thought I knew everything about everything. But in the words of Albert Einstein, “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.” Now the world has become a massive amusement park filled with unlimited knowledge and experience. With endless opportunities, I keep getting younger.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“Starting to see that, I was trained to not question. So I believed what the family said, not what they did. We were taught that men and women were equal in the family. We were not treated the same. Why were women expected to sacrifice and sleep with men they didn't want to and it wasn't the same for men? Why did we have to serve and service the men all while being told we were equal.”
― Faith Jones

“...any further words drying up as he leads me to the bed. I've been so trained not to refuse, to obey my elders that I don't have the words to object. ...I'm trapped. Trapped by my own mind which has been conditioned to never refuse an uncle.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

“All things did work together for my good, but not automatically. I had to choose to create good from it and turn my traumas into strength.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“he was just beginning to formulate his ideas of Christian communism based on Acts 2:44.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“I addition to finding marriage partners, we're expected to have sex in our own age group, but not to get selfish or clickish like in the system high school movies we've seen at movie night where the hot guy gets with only the hot girls. In the family everyone is supposed to share sex with each other. Even if they are not attracted to the person.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

“he told only the top leadership about this exciting new ministry of “Flirty Fishing,” where the female disciples, the “bait,” would flirt with and often have sex with preferably well-to-do men called “Fish,” as a witnessing technique to gain followers and monetary donations.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“My initial horror and humiliation become my new normal. I realize I can adapt to anything, no matter how terrible.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

“Grandpa also doesn't consider rape that big of a deal. In a Mo letter titled, Rape he recommends that women just submit and get it over with. Even try to show the rapist God's love.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

“accepting absolute responsibility is power. Only I have the ability to make my decisions, control my thoughts, dictate my emotions, and succeed or fail.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“If the soft clay the potter is fashioning into a vase has a hard lump in it, the vase has to be smashed the lump removed and then the clay refashioned into something better, Jeremiah 18:1-4. The breaking is not the average correction or spanking. It's a crushing and remaking.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

“Thank God we are in the Family, safe from such things.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“...feeling that this was somehow my fault and that I would get blamed for it if I called for help kept me fighting in silence. I was on my own. I could not trust them to take my side, to protect me.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

“Alone What is loneliness Not touch, not sound Not feeling, sight nor scent But rather an absence An absence of all the above and yet . . . even with all the above you can still be alone. . . . Do you understand me? Of course you don’t. You’re not me and never will be. How could you feel what it’s like in this skin? How could I ever let you in?”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“Our sex is our service to God. Refusing sex is being hard and selfish, unyielded to God's will and our absolute obedience is expected.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

“Grandpa teaches that sex is pure and godly, and that it has been corrupted as something dirty and shameful by the devil who is deceiving god's people. He says that if sex is pure and godly, then why shouldn't children engage in sex play with each other or with adults. It's all perfectly innocent after all, if it is done with love.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

“I realize if I fully own something, I don’t owe it to anyone else unless I make a free agreement to provide it in exchange for something else I value”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life