A picture.
Guess what this is?
Girls' school graduation photo? Choir? Parents meeting?
Congratulations on all your guesses wrong.
Their real identities are:
couples.
A man and his 78 wives, 24 of whom are underage.
Is this a real thing in the world?
The latest documentary is enough to subvert your cognition
"Obelief: Pray and Obey in the Cult"
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey
Story that cannot be shot even in the Handmaid's Story.
Everything was staged in a civilized world in the 21st century. Four-episode documentary produced by
Netflix.
Expose the secret history of American cult FLDS ( Jesus Christian fundamentalist Latter-day Saints).
This is a controversial religion in contemporary America and belongs to a side branch of Mormon .
Mainstream Mormonism had undergone reforms more than a hundred years ago, while FLDS stubbornly insisted on what they believed to be "orthodox" - polygamy .
They often gather in sparsely populated towns in the Midwest of the United States and live a life isolated from the outside world.
until its last bishop, Warren Jeffs .
was sentenced to life imprisonment for felony crimes such as sexual assault on children and assisting with rape. The many secrets of
FLDS have finally been revealed to the world: How did this closed secret "country" use its control over women for many years?
"You have to marry at least three wives, and you can only ascend to heaven after you die."
Since childhood, FLDS men have been taught this way.
And - the more wives you marry, the higher your status within FLDS, and the higher your status in heaven after death.
Luron Jeffs , the last bishop of FLDS, also known as the "Prophet", has supreme power.
Number of wives is an intuitive display of the status of the prophet.
When he was alive, he married a total of 65 wives, so at the funeral, the picture was like this:
How did so many wives marry?
is presented by male believers.
Alicia , when he saw the prophet at the age of 18, he took it as his own. He got married that night and became his 23rd wife.
Rebecca, when she was
don't want it?
Not to mention whether the girls have the courage to oppose this person with the highest status.
Due to the education received since childhood, the environment for growth.
Ridiculous things will eventually become "normal".
Just like Alicia said, her wish since childhood was to be a good wife, have many children, and live the life that every woman in FLDS should live.
When the prophet said he wanted to marry her, she was just "a little shocked" and then accepted it.
The 65 wives of the prophet gave birth to more than 60 children for him.
His wives have to queue outside the door every night, taking turns to say good night to him by the bed.
Alicia recalled that she was extremely disgusted by Ruren kissing several other women and then kissing her, and she secretly used quite a lot of mouthwash.
What made her and Rebeca suffer even more was that she was forcibly asked to have a relationship with Rulun and exercise "wife's responsibility."
However, since childhood, they have zero sexual knowledge. At the age of 20, they thought they could have children by kissing. In this case, how can we talk about "sexual consent"?
Will the father object to the daughter marrying the old man?
You should know.
Many people are reluctant to marry their daughter to the bishop.
They think this is a manifestation of status, and more importantly, it is a considerable investment
Rebecca's father also exchanged his daughter for the third wife rewarded by the prophet.
This means that he can finally ascend to heaven in the future.
In FLDS, people cannot fall in love and get married independently.
Only the prophet has the right to marry everyone.
So, marriage became a kind of "reciprocal transaction" .
OK, my father doesn't care.
But does the law not care about it?
Although polygamy is not recognized by US law.
But in some conservative states, as long as there is no evidence of criminal acts, the relevant departments cannot control it.
Moreover, most law enforcement officers do not want to break up their families, and it is common to mix with others.
But in fact, almost no one has been sued
It is difficult to prove that
Law enforcement officers and politicians
Don’t want to break up the family
Such is bad enough.
Who would have thought of?
Not long after, Bishop Ruren Jeffs actually made people miss it:
Because, the next bishop is here.
You will understand after experiencing some things.
The evil people may disappear, but the world may not be better from now on.
will even accelerate the fall.
When Ruren Jeffs was reigned, the believers of FLDS were not completely out of touch with the outside world.
Children can receive secular education and occasionally participate in external activities, just be more low-key.
But when his son Warren Jeffs became the new bishop, everything changed.
He realized that the outside world was gradually loosening the thoughts of the believers, causing the sect to be increasingly eroded.
In order to stabilize the foundation.
He implemented more extreme closure.
and let obey, implant it into children's brains since childhood.
His father has a famous saying:
"Obe obedient, above everything."
Keep sweet, this sentence is printed in every corner.
And he knows better than his father.
He taught:
"Real obedience is like hair leading."
What does it mean?
means that true obedience is like being pulled on the hair and cannot be pulled off.
After Warren took office, people at FLDS could feel a kind of madness spreading.
The first thing he did.
directly inherited a bunch of wives from his dead father.
The second thing.
sets more dogmas for women.
Before Warren took power, women could also decide what they dressed, as long as they were not exposed.
As soon as Warren took office, all women must wear solid color dresses of the same style and wrap them tightly from head to toe.
Spend a few hours a day to comb the same complex hairstyle.
The initial concession of women eventually turned into having only one kind of dress.
strengthens isolation from the outside world and increases brainwashing and indoctrination efforts.
The believers can no longer participate in any external activities.
Movies, music, and amusement parks have all become sins. Before
Before, children could receive secular education.
Now, you can only go to church school .
Warren also designed a set of courses for FLDS women to teach them how to abandon distracting thoughts and obey the prophets, husbands and fathers wholeheartedly.
Before, foreign books could still be seen in the libraries of church schools.
Now, all of them disappear, and you can only read the reading books written by the church.
The content in the textbook that is contrary to religion has been modified and deleted by Warren.
They will cut the content of science textbooks
Reproduction, solar system and so on
Even thinking and questioning have become taboos.
"For things you don't understand, let's leave it alone."
is a thing that men often say.
What if someone else wants to continue asking?
intimidation.
describes the outside world and people as sins and fire, and only FLDS is beautiful and happy.
The drainage ditches in Salt Lake City Street are all blood
If you violate the taboo, you will fall into hell.
But Salt Lake City is still a relatively developed big city after all, and it is difficult to stay away from worldly interference. What to do if
?
move.
In 2002, Warren began to lie and said that the end of the world was coming, vividly describing the scene of Salt Lake City being swallowed by the fire of hell.
In a more remote town, Warren successfully established his own country.
Self-sufficient farm, controlling the real estate in the whole town. The police selected by
are filled with surveillance facilities and walled iron gates in various streets.
Overyone cannot get in, and the people inside cannot get out.
No TV, no Internet, no newspaper.
People living here don’t even know who the current US president is.
In such a world isolated from the world.
The fate of women has become more dangerous.
Victim No. 1Eliza.
html When she was 114 years old, she was married by Warren to her cousin whom she hates the most.
What makes Eliza special is that she bravely expressed her rejection to the prophet.
But Warren's words made her fall into the abyss of fear.
Are you questioning the will of the prophet?
Do you believe that you know more omniscient than the prophet?
After marriage, she was raped and abused by her husband.
But at that time, she had never heard of what "rape" and "invasion" were.
Because in FLDS, there is no such accusation against men at all, and there is no such word.
After being raped by her husband for the first time, she cried and prayed in the bathroom, trying to find God's will from such pain.
At the age of only 15 and 16, she had two miscarriages in succession.
And at that time she thought that these were all oracles.
Even Eliza rarely has a rebellious feeling in her bones.
But her cognition has been restricted since childhood, which has prevented her from making more effective resistance for a long time.
victim Ruby.
When she was a child, she fell in love with a boy in the parish.
When Warren learned about it, he quickly gave Ruby, who was only 14 years old, to her distant cousin.
Because in FLDS, it is taboo to like a opposite sex casually.
html When he was 124 years old, Ruby had already given birth to six children.
But she said that there is no child she wants to give birth to.
Although years have passed.
Every time Ruby recalls being given a marriage by Warren, she can’t control her emotions.
Eliza and Ruby have one thing in common.
That means they are all "not obedient enough".
And Warren's usual method is that meets such "restless" girls and tie them up early with marriage and pregnancy.
Women have become a tool for trading here.
If a man supports him, he will reward his wife.
Whoever dares to object will confiscate his wife and assign it to other men. Anyway, some people are ready to move.
After the death of the old prophet, Alicia first married Warren's brother.
After Warren overthrew his brother, he forced Alicia and the child to his younger brother.
even.
These girls can be circulated to the outside world to bribe people who need bribes.
In 2002, Warren gave a 16-year-old girl to a 32-year-old police officer and asked her to get pregnant and have a child.
But Warren probably didn't expect it.
He was so arrogant that he was finally overthrown by these weak women.
Women are deprived of human attributes here.
However, these women who have never been regarded as human beings have ended the demons with their own hands and redeemed their own identity.
In 2005, Eliza escaped from FLDS.
Then, with the encouragement of her sister Rebecca, she decided to sue Warren:
This kind of thing should not happen to you
should not happen to others
In court, Eliza bravely spread out everything she suffered and was examined word by word.
includes how she begged Warren was rejected, how she suffered rape from her husband without knowing anything.
For the first time, she stared at the eyes of the prophet who was once most afraid of, without dodging.
This time, Warren avoided his eyes first.
At that moment, she realized that this man could no longer dominate her destiny.
In 2007, Warren was sentenced to ten years in prison for assisting in rape.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg of Warren's crime.
In 2011, in a church secret room in Texas, law enforcement officers discovered more shocking evidence of Warren.
Photos, diaries, archives, recordings...
The true face of this demon is revealed to the world:
What makes people more frightened than Warren's crime itself is that every time he commits a crime, he always uses the banner of God.
God pressures my heart
I want me to marry a young girl as my wife
Just like the American drama " Under the Flag of Heaven" which interprets the Mormon murder case.
In the name of God, we can fulfill our selfish desires.
Among them, there is a recording of him sexually assaulting a 14-year-old and 12-year-old girl.
is on the white bed in the church.
and Warren will be sexual assault as a holy exercise.
He made the girl think of God in her heart, and he muttered something:
In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen
But is the documentary about just a cult that harms people? What is more secretive than the cult is a patriarchal utopian social model behind FLDS.
Mike Vazis, a reporter who has been following and investigating FLDS for many years, believes that controls the fate of women and is the basis for maintaining the operation of FLDS.
Women are the sacrifice of this religion.
But this religion can also be replaced by something else.
Whether it is faith, customs and traditions, family continuation, political authority...
has the possibility of continuously obtaining the foundation of domination in a way that enslaves women.
There is another plot in the documentary that is meaningful.
Interviewer asked, what does it feel like to live a polygamy?
Husband said that we have been together for 30 years.
But the wife said.
Conflicts continue
Even though the couple has now left FLDS, the husband still doesn't think that "polygamy" is problematic, only is because Warren is evil.
In such a society, women often bear the pain that men cannot perceive.
But the danger brought by patriarchal oppression will gradually shift from women to men after all.
Because of a society built on the basis of trampling on the weak, no one can survive alone.
It will not stop, the ultimate goal is to make everyone obedient.
Think about it.
In order to maintain polygamy, what should those men who cannot marry their wives do?
The young boy was first squeezed by him as cheap labor.
Then, young boys were constantly expelled from FLDS and were homeless.
Because young girls' resources are reserved for the most prestigious old men in the church.
But today an old man will have a group of family members because of the bishop's gift.
You may be ordered tomorrow, your wife and children will be separated and you will have nothing.
Warren is down.
But sadly.
FLDS There are still countless believers who follow Warren's preaching life in prison and regard him as a prophet.
Many of his wives will come to prison to see him and never leave him.
For many people who have escaped from FLDS, they are separated from their relatives who are still in the church for a long time.
-How many children do you have are still inside
-Eight
The brainwashing and discipline over the years have made many people unable to understand the world outside Warren's sermon.
When will you wake up?
Or, how many people are willing to bear the impact of the collapse of faith?
Alicia once felt that her life was just a lie after seeing Warren's true face.
But is it just degenerate? Or continue to pretend to be asleep?
What she thought of was.
Don’t let your daughters experience everything they have experienced.
is on the way to escape from FLDS.
The truck door suddenly loosened, and everything she relied on in FLDS for the first half of her life was scattered with the wind.
She didn't know what the future would be, but at least at that moment she knew that she was a complete person.
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