Reddit reviews I Fired God: My Life Inside---and Escape from---the Secret World of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult

>What on earth even is a helpmeet? Is it a religious thing?

Is a fundamentalist thing, usually Baptist, usually part of the "quiver full" movement, and almost always involved in homeschooling. The Duggar from the show 19 Kids and Counting are involved in it.

http://nogreaterjoy.org/blogs/createdtobehishelpmeet/

These people also be a book about raising children, whose methods have been linked to the deaths of least three children.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pearl#Controversy_over_To_Train_Up_a_Child

My ex wife and her family started to go down this path (and have continued to since our divorce). Thankfully I was able to get full custody of our children.

There's a great book written by a woman and her husband who escaped that lifestyle, if you are interested. It is very much a cult, and creepy as hell. I highly recommend this book, if you know anyone in that lifestyle or are curious about things like that.

I Fired God: My Life Inside---and Escape from---the Secret World of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250026261/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_vIYvzbTX1XKD6

I can recommend a few things. For some reason I like reading books about people who have escaped from fundamentalist sects. These may not be exactly what you're looking for but you might want to give them a try.

• I Fired God: My Life Inside - and Escape from -the Secret World of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult by Jocelyn Zichterman. This is a book written by a woman who grew up in the IFB church (the same kind of church the Duggars belong to) and she talks about how abusive her childhood was because of it. Eventually she and her husband leave the church and have to cut off contact with her family.
  
  
• Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church by Lauren Drain. Lauren's family joined the WBC when she was a teenager. She was later excommunicated and had to learn to make her own way in the world. The rest of her family still belongs to the church.
  
  
• Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood by Leah Vincent. This is actually about a woman leaving ultra-orthodox Judaism but her struggle with no longer being part of the only world she's ever known is very similar to what I've read in books about people leaving Christianity. It's a brutally honest memoir but it the ending is happy.
  
  
• Keep Sweet: Children of Polygamy by Debbie Palmer. This one is written by a woman who grew up in the fundamentalist Mormon community of Bountiful. She suffered some severe abuse in both childhood and and as an adult. She made her escape when she saw the same things happening to her children.

I'm going speak up for strong language too with this one as I had been published because I did employ the f-strike. Let's not borrow our strong language from the Latter Day Saints. Warning: I am going to say FUCK in this comment and will defend this word because the author behind I Fired God it's a guess she found my roster at some point. She swears as hard as in The Pattern Of Diagnosis. Telling an Italian not to swear is rude to the culture as in telling them to watch their language they're going to be called a 'cazzo.'

I have been in this fight since I was 20 years old; as I had those pulling Fundie Copypasta because I had employed use of the f-bomb. I will message you in private because I had invoked a lot of controversy because the guys on Issue Five of my mag became the embodiment of the House Divided Speech.

My alumni are going to cause a real stir because he had this on his page; Habakkuk 2:2 as the King James Version. Tim blocked me from commenting because I said "fuck" in the comments.

And in this comment I am going to defend this word from other Christians because "fuck" has a history. I will provide my literary journals fifth issue to help you speak out against censorship and let's not hide behind Ephesians to be censorship advocates. Christians trying to speak out against the finger, as I am going to say that's telling the Greeks they don't give a shit about Ancient Greece or Philosophy. As I am about to invite everyone to read up because it's a guess that the Apostle Paul was given this gesture when he did Ephesians as I see young earth creationists with this statement on their facebook page.

>CUSSING, BLASPHEMY, and ABUSE WILL BE BANNED!

I guess he hasn't invoked cram it clownie or make the joke of being my first boy scout troop being the one who instigated the urban legend. Rebuking Hovind and the controversy I invoked when I did it was all for laughs. I have this petition which I started for The Boondocks creator; read the entire thing and look into the information I provided as I am defending the use of strong language. When one seen The Babylon Bee pull off some equally nasty barbs; as Fox News caught wind of them over the TBN barb. When one sees Paul Crouch showing the finger, then you see the barb as even funnier.