Reply #39: Yes and no [View All]

the FLDS has been up to this sort of thing generations prior to Warren Jeffs. He is/was only the most current leader of them.

In addition. You have to understand, these women were conditioned from the cradle on to comply with the will of "the prophet", whoever he may be, and of their husbands. The women themselves and quite frankly I'd say even most of the men are likely the end result of a lifetime of abuse at the hands of equally abused parents. When it gets to a generational thing it's not just a matter of being "crazy".

This happens to be a defined cult, with various compounds all over the United States and some have taken hold in Canada and Mexico. But there are "hidden" cults all around the US, that have the same generational brainwashing and abuse that destroys one generation after the next. Not too long ago there was loose band of Appalacian churches in West Virginia that by every outward appearance seemed to be a regular small christian church. Turned out generation after generation they were practicing some sort of Satanic worship, sometimes in the church but mostly in homes. Women and children were bein horrifically mentally, physically and sexually abused. Most of the men who were doing it were raised in that culture also and thought they were handpicked by a god (because they managed to survive within the culture structure rather than die or be shunned) to do the same to their wives and children.

Most people do as they are raised to do. I, thank god, was raised in a fairly healthy way. Not too many generations back part of my family were freed slaves, born of slaves who were also born of slaves. There's one (however many great's) Aunt who was freed but simply stayed on the rest of her life and just kept doing what she always did because "freedom" had no meaning to her. Even if she left she had nowhere to go. She lived to be quite old and I believe died in the 1940's, still living in the shack behind a big house in Georgia.