It was interesting that she was first felt ashamed after she received money for sleeping with a man. But before that, many nights in bed with many different men, did not shame her. I was interested in her thought process, as you read it, you think, how can she possibly do this, and then, what else is there that she will fall into. And then you have their main leader, when I think of him, reminds me of people such as Hitler. Both got people to follow their crazy ideas. But this guy was something, exremely selfish, insane maybe.
She got my attention when she mentioned that those who used to be very conservative, strict Christians, and then crossed over to their cult. It was them who were most wild in their family after being so conservative. Personally I don't get it why some people found it to be boring, it was her life that you read about, as it was. And trust me, her life was not boring. It was anything but boring. How can you be bored in that kind of life?
At the end you admire her for what she overcame, and then became successful.
Miriam Williams was an idealistic child of the sixties who, at seventeen, accepted an invitation from a "Jesus person" to visit a commune in upstate New York. She would soon be prostituting herself for a perverse cult that used sex to lure sinners to the Lord -- and this is her shocking, searingly honest account of a fifteen-year spiritual odyssey gone haywire.
The Children of God turned its female devotees into Heaven's Harlots, leading strangers to the love of God by enticing them with the pleasures of the flesh. At its height, the cult boasted 19,000 members around the world: In such places as France and Monte Carlo, young women, Miriam among them, mingled with the rich and famous to save their souls, and in this unsparing, unnerving autobiography, she'll identify some of her high-profile "clients." She left this bizarre world in an attempt to protect her son, born through an arranged marriage and kidnapped by his father.
Now, in a clear, compelling, cautionary tale, she shares both her extraordinary existence as a holy whore and the daunting experience of rebuilding a normal life -- an ordeal that led her to found a group dedicated to helping other cult survivors reclaim their souls as well.