Flor Edwards è nata e cresciuta nella setta apocalittica dei Bambini di Dio, che credeva che la fine del mondo sarebbe avvenuta nel 1993, quando lei avrebbe compiuto 12 anni.
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00:30and says, you know what, I'm going to join this cult
00:32no one even knew it was a cult
00:33until way later
00:34My name is Flora Edwards
00:55and I grew up in the apocalyptic cult
00:57known as the Children of God
01:00The Children of God was a group
01:03that started on the shores of Huntington Beach
01:05I always say it had very humble beginnings
01:08Father David was the leader
01:12he was the son of an evangelist preacher
01:15and he came out to California
01:17and wanted to give the young people
01:20something to live for
01:21and it just was a bunch of young people
01:23during the 1960s
01:24trying to get off of drugs
01:26and as they put it high on Jesus
01:28I always point out the three main teachings
01:31of 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
01:45he sort of wanted to adopt this new belief system
01:48that sex was a part of God's love
01:50so he had some very controversial beliefs
01:52around sex and the body
01:53people always want to know how did it turn from something that was good and innocent
02:11to something that was actually quite dark
02:14my answer to that is
02:15the adults had to find a way to control the children
02:19because we weren't there on our own free will
02:20they were raising us to basically save the world
02:23there were a lot of reports of incest within the group
02:37or 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
02:53he had drinking problems, he was a sex addict, a narcissist
03:00just all the different things that come with the cult leader
03:03he was also very charismatic, he was also very intelligent, very brilliant
03:07he would not have been able to gather such a large group of people
03:10if he didn't have some sort of enticing quality to him
03:14please can I be a member of your club
03:17leaving the cult was very difficult
03:19because we had been completely cut off from the world
03:22my parents had no education, no money
03:24everyone inside was terrified to leave
03:27it's like they stay and have this community of people
03:30or they leave and die basically
03:32and 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
03:45people always want like a sad sob story
03:48there was awful things that went on
03:51but this was my story to tell