![]() May 1: Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright (13 votes) Up next on March 15: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally As Possible by AJ Jacobs (14 votes) followed byĪpril 1: A Stolen Life by Jacyee Dugard (13 votes)Īpril 15: Quiverfull by Kathryn Joyce (13 votes) Despite people on the outside working to change things there are strong enough forces inside the group that want to keep the group separate. I think that the FLDS is so suspicious of outsiders that it wouldn't really change things. ![]() I've heard discussions of legalizing (or at least decriminalizing) polygamy where it is argued that doing so would make it easier to prevent crimes like child marriages, but having read this book I wonder if it really would help. They were thinking of the terror of losing their children, not of surrendering their human rights, which is precisely what happened." "The women then believed that they must be even more obedient to the prophet in the future. The leadership could have used that sympathy to lessen the conflict between the two groups but they didn't instead they used it to increase their control over the group. ![]() On p22/23 she talked about the Short Creek raid and how it generated sympathy for the cult. One of the things that struck me while reading this book was the manipulation of the conflict/hostility between FLDS members and the outside world in order to isolate the community. Our first book club discussion is on Escape by Carolyn Jessop. ![]()
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