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TRIPPING UP IBD

HUGE JAM
05 / 2021
9781911249634
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Sinopsis

'WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER I joined a radical religious cult.'áWith a candour that continues throughout, so begins John TitusâÇÖs detailed and absorbing account of the eight years he spent with the âÇÖChildren of GodâÇÖ or the âÇÖFamilyâÇÖ: from the moment he stepped onto the âÇÖLoony BusâÇÖ as an 18-year-old Christian and swapped âÇÖJohnâÇÖ for âÇÖSalemâÇÖ, through eager passion, doubt, and concern, to quitting the cult in his mid-twenties with his wife and young son.Intimate yet universal, at times distressing despite its infectious âÇÖgallowsâÇÖ humor, this is a uniquely well-documented and well-written âÇÖtell-allâÇÖ on a cult that gradually succumbed to its leaderâÇÖs fast spiral downward to egocentric bizarreness. Original verses that accompany each chapter, based on traditional fairy tales for children, feed into this sinister other-worldliness.Unlike many other memoirs you might read on this theme, this authentic narrative is filled with photographs from those eight years, with extracts and images from the tracts and letters that were disseminated, and with the authorâÇÖs soul-searching journal extracts that serve almost as a dialogue between past and present. Similarly unlike many books in this genre, John Titus steers clear of any hypocrisy. After all, he concludes,áif cults had nothing good or enjoyable about them why would anyone bother hanging around?áJudge for yourself, as you reenact his journey in a book that is ultimately a reminder to us all that far from being âÇÖstrangeâÇÖ or âÇÖoddballâÇÖ, itâÇÖs often those people most instinctively and selflessly dedicated to making a positive difference to our world that unwittingly find themselves manipulated and even trapped within a self-marginalizing and frighteningly invisible world.áAuthorâÇÖs website:áwww.trippingup.net

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