Not without My Sister by Celeste Jones, Kristina Jones and Juliana Buhring (ISBN 9780007248070)
The three sisters, Celeste, Kristina and Juliana, recalls their memories of being part of the 'Children of God' religious cult in which the practice of free sex and 'everyone is a family' are inculcated in them since they were toddlers. The Bible is interpreted in a way that love equals sex and the members of the cult were very much sexually exploited. It is utmost disturbing that the first hand accounts of the sisters' experience of being sexually abused were well shared in this biography which they details on how they become part of the cult and the difficulties they face to get out of it. The sisters undergo trials and tribulations to get accustomed with the outside society, the normal society.
A thought-provoking book, on the hows and whys of peoples' beliefs and change of beliefs in the religious and logical contexts, it serves as an informative book that warns others about the existence of the cult and other similar ones in the past and sadly, still in existence in today's world.
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