My grandfather was the founding father of the Children of God SEX CULT

A lady has candidly revealed how her grandfather based the Children of God cult to advertise his liberal views on sexuality – practising polygamy and free love even with underage members.

Faith Jones appeared on a current episode of the Cults To Consciousness podcast to debate her harrowing expertise as a part of the sect, which was later generally known as The Family International.

The now 47-year-old was born into ‘The Family’ in 1977 in Hong Kong and was thought of cult royalty because the granddaughter of psychosexual chief David Berg.

Berg based the group in 1968 out of Huntington Beach, California, earlier than it advanced to have a following of greater than 15,000 members worldwide, together with Joaquin Phoenix and Rose McGowan.

Faith has mentioned that her grandfather, who died in 1994, inspired sexual and bodily abuse in opposition to youngsters as a part of the sect’s rules. 

Faith, who has since written a e-book titled Sex Cult Nun, started by telling host Shelise Ann Sola about how her household began the Children of God cult within the ‘hippie era’ of the Nineteen Sixties.

‘My grandfather was the Guru Prophet of the group, however my mother and father had been very lively,’ she mentioned.

‘My grandfather’s very radical message of drop out of the system, serve God full-time, turn out to be a full-time missionary – the civilization was ripe for that message.’  

She continued: ‘In the early days it was nonetheless a lot extra strictly following form of conventional Christian morals like no intercourse with out marriage and so forth and so forth.

‘It wasn’t till some years later that my grandfather started getting all of those revelations about free love, free intercourse, “the wife of one is the wife of everyone” form of factor.’

Faith claimed that her grandfather had beforehand had quite a few affairs, including: ‘He needed extra of that and I believe he form of created a non secular doctrine to justify his personal needs.

‘Sadly, that’s what occurs rather a lot in a lot of these organizations – notably ones run by males the place they justify their sexual inclinations by developing with some God-given revelation that that is what God desires us to do,’ she mentioned.

‘[My grandfather] had already had been partaking in pedophilia actually along with his personal daughters to some extent… and that doctrine additionally fed into the group so far as this being the norm. 

‘It was a rejection in opposition to what he felt he had been introduced up with which was a really strict no intercourse, disgrace about your physique, your sexual inclinations.

‘He took his idea and unfold it to all people and was like “this is how you raise godly children who are not ashamed of themselves and their bodies.”

‘But it was actively selling pedophilia throughout the group.’

Faith mentioned that from a really younger age she noticed folks having intercourse and was additionally pressured to take part in sexual acts with older males.

‘I did not notice it was unhealthy or flawed. I had a way inside myself that this wasn’t proper however I additionally was informed that that is high quality, that is regular, that is wholesome, godly…,’ she mentioned.

‘In the group, intercourse was seen as a bodily want – that was how my grandfather had talked about it.

‘He mentioned the bible says if someone’s hungry give them to eat, if he is thirsty give them to drink, if he wants garments give him your cloak.

‘And in fact that is all reliable however in my grandfather’s thoughts the way in which he had constructed it up was intercourse was a basic bodily want that you ought to be required to offer to males.’

Faith mentioned that the cult was ‘coercive’ and didn’t permit contraception, explaining: ‘Women did get pregnant and the issue was that usually occasions in case you acquired pregnant from someone you’d be pressured to marry them – even in case you did not wish to.

‘That worry was very, very actual.’

She revealed that it was not simply sexual abuse however that additionally bodily assaults together with ‘very harsh spankings and self-discipline’ carried out publicly.

‘You needed to be very, very conscious of your environment, of the adults, of their reactions in order that you would attempt to navigate that with as little ache as attainable.’

Delving additional into the cult, she mentioned: ‘It will not be till you are in it you could actually notice how that may occur and the way that may take over your mentality…  

‘Making folks imagine they do not personal themselves, that they do not personal their very own our bodies – that is the core.

‘If you will get somebody to imagine that, then you possibly can take away all of their different rights.’

She mentioned that the leaders, who had been known as Shepherds, would tear aside marriages and take away youngsters in the event that they claimed the relationships weren’t ‘glorifying God or serving God in one of the simplest ways.’

Faith claimed that the kid abuse was largely stopped within the Nineteen Eighties, arguing: ‘The authorities had been getting known as in, there have been raids on the properties, they needed to take the youngsters away.

‘Then there was an enormous courtroom case within the UK which made them alter their stance on corporal punishment and actually extreme spankings.’

Speaking about her personal motivations for breaking away from the cult, she mentioned: ‘I did not depart the group as a result of I believed they had been flawed, I left the group as a result of I wasn’t allowed to get an schooling.

‘But as soon as I did depart and I skilled life exterior the group and I went via a course of.

‘It takes time to shift your entire mindset to escape that mannequin of the world and that sample.’

She mentioned ‘whenever you left the group, you left with nothing,’ however she has since turn out to be a lawyer and now speaks on ethical rules.

Giving her remaining phrase, Faith candidly revealed: ‘I’m so grateful for my life. I noticed I used to be actually grateful for every part and even the unhealthy.

‘People do not all the time perceive. I’m actually grateful – the rapes, the abuse, every part – I’m actually grateful as a result of I would not be who I’m right now, I would not have the understanding that I’ve, I would not see how sturdy I’m if I hadn’t skilled a few of these issues.

‘I would not perceive what others undergo if I hadn’t skilled a few of these issues myself and I believe when you will get to some extent the place you are grateful it actually can shift your entire life.

‘It’s not that I do not acknowledge that individuals did flawed however in my coronary heart I did not wish to have to hold that in all places.

‘I used to be a sufferer however I did not must proceed to be a sufferer.’