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Lattin, who covered the religion beat for the San Francisco Chronicle, offers an arresting if uneven account of the Family. . All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly In January 2005, Ricky Rodriguez stabbed a woman to death and then fled the scene of the crime, finally shooting himself in the California desert. (Oct.)Copyright © Re

Lattin, who covered the religion beat for the San Francisco Chronicle, offers an arresting if uneven account of the Family. . All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly In January 2005, Ricky Rodriguez stabbed a woman to death and then fled the scene of the crime, finally shooting himself in the California desert. (Oct.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Some aspects of the Family, like flirty fishing (sacred prostitution), are carefully researched, while others (like a journalistic account of how the cult funded itself so well on a global scale) are underreported. Rodriguez was a high-profile ex-member of the Children of God, also called the Family, a controversial hippie cult of the 1970s that had spiraled into aberrant sexual behaviors and other disconcerting practices. He begins by arguing that the cult is best understood in the

But their sexual and spiritual excesses soon forced them to go underground and follow a dark and dangerous path. But Berg's message quickly devolved into its own web of lies. Their charismatic leader, David "Moses" Berg, preached a radical critique of the piety and hypocrisy of mainstream Christianity. He lusted for power and unlimited access to female members of his flock—including young girls and teenagers—and became a drunken tyrant, setting up re-indoctrination camps around the world for rebellious teenagers under his control. Jesus Freaks is a cautionary tale for those who fail to question the prophesies and proclamations of anyone who claims to speak for God.. Sexually and emotionally abused as a child, Ricky left the fold and began a crusade to destroy the only family he ever knew, including a plot to kill his own mother.Veteran journalist Don Lattin has written a powerful, engrossing book about this uniquely American tragedy. In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven, Don Lattin's Jesus Freaks is the story of a shocking pilgrimage of revenge that left two people dead and shed new light on The Family International, one of the most controversial religious movements to emerge from the spiritual turmoil of the sixties and seventies.Some say The Family International—previously known as the Children of God—began with th

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• Title : Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge
• Author : Don Lattin
• Rating : 4.73 (307 Vote)
• Publish : 2016-10-25
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 256 Pages
• Asin : 0061118060
• Language : English