#keep sweet: pray and obey

[girlpog]

So I’m watching Keep Sweet, Pray, and Obey on Netflix and they’re talking about how the FLDS believe that a man needs to have at least 3 wives to enter the gates of Heaven and get cool god powers and this one guy keeps complaining about how he only has 2 wives and I couldn’t get this image out of my head

[fundiebabynamebible]

I HIGHLY recommend Keep Sweet Pray and Obey on Netflix. It’s crazy how alike all these fundie cults are. Warren Jeffs is fucking evil.

[thedeathdeelers]

this man really said

[msnikkimoneypenny]

The fact Warren Jeff had these folks so brain washed. He had his own young wives circle around him ti watch and assist as he literally raped and took a child (bride) virginity.

Even more sickening is him recording that shit. I mean it's good that it was recorded for the fact to be used as evidence against him. But the sick fuck recorded his cruelty.

[exmosuggestion]

i'm not going to pretend that i understand what it's like to be flds, nor will i equivalate brighamite/corporate church trauma to flds trauma. but damn it is exhausting and triggering seeing people who have never lived a day in a high-demand group (hdg) treat documentaries and fiction based on irl groups like it's the latest release of their favorite show.

you people need to be fucking careful about how you interact w/ hdg media. you know someone who was in one if you live in the so-called united states. we see how you treat our trauma like a new marvel movie, or the latest season of stranger things, or like a rerun of goosebumps. yes, be horrified, but your pain and shock will never be the same as the lives we had to abandon and rebuild. if you're white, your rage should never take up more space in conversations about hdgs as the voices of those who have been harmed by hdgs, and the voices of people directly targeted by their (very often) yt supremacist beliefs.

[landunderthewave]

I was wondering about the gender ratios when you have these gross dudes with a handful of wives. But yeah, putting boys 13 and above homeless on the street would do it...

[msbrightsides]

Keep Sweet: Prey and Obey was so horrifying but I couldn’t look away. Men will do anything in the name of God to justify absolutely heinous actions. The followers have nothing left to do but watch. They are isolated and are taught to put all their faith in one man, as if that doesn’t go against The Bible and it’s teachings of not following false idols. Religion is flawed in of itself bc it’s man made and cults like LDS fundies take it to the extreme. This is why I will never stand behind organized religion.

[bunfart90]

the tape of the 12 year old girl was viscerally painful to hear like STOP WITH YOUR FUCKED UP JUSTIFICATION FOR R@PING A CHILD IT IS SO. omg and the anguished little "amen" I was SCREAMING. it's so fucked up.

[hellshee]

one of the most ironic things about keep sweet: pray and obey is that texas authorities went in to take the children from flds because they suspected they were abused under the guise of religion and then, to transport them to where they needed to be taken, they used busses on which it was written “the baptist church” 

i kind of had a “girl are you serious” moment watching that

[naneki-maid]

Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey is just one of those rare forms of media where you really have to physically and emotionally prepare yourself before watching, a real special kind of evil that unfortunately is still practiced to this day.

[mr42]

oh unbreakable kimmy schmidt was making some real world refferences apparently.

[wildwitchofthewoodland]

I watched the documentary "keep sweet: pray and obey" about the flds yesterday. It's obviously very bleak but there were a few things I found especially unsettling. First, how blatant and clumsy the whole ideology is. This prophet is basically just saying "God wants me to marry a lot of young girls" and everyone is just going along with it. The documentary emphazises the brain washing happening in this cult but it more or less ignores the amount of grown men who actively and willingly participated in this system because it gave them access to girls and women. Those men are talking about love while inflicting unimaginable terrors on their wives and daughters (and young sons - since all the young girls are married off to older man the teenage boys are kicked out) yet the documentary did not really frame them as perpetrators, more as victims themselves. If a man is disobedient to the church, his wives and children will be redistributes to another man. He will be completely erased from their lifes. This is violent and extrem, but the family itself is already a product of extreme violence that was enacted by those men; they have no right to call themselves victims. Speaking of victims: the documentary focused very much on the sexual abuse of children. Obviously it's a tragedy and a shame that 14 year old girls are married off to men in their thirties and are raped and forced to birth more children for this sick system, but treating girls like property, like currency doesn't suddenly become okay as soon as they turn 18. Rape, forced marriage and forced birth are horrible crimes on their own. Violence against women is so normalized that people don't even care, apparently it's only the violence against children what makes this unacceptable and that is so depressing.

[msnikkimoneypenny]

The fact that the FLDS is still in operation and still listening to Warren Jeff (polygamist/child rape enforcer/their prophet) is sickening . That man has a life sentence and is still controlling things.

PS: since they are so isolated do they know what society thinks of them?

[noseyrosey1597]

Has anyone seen Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey? Cause Ruby and Joe got me sobbing 😭

[landunderthewave]

"I consider the FLDS church the number one domestic human traffickers in the country." Woof. The church has absorbed all the businesses (and profits) of its members and boys are kept around, if they work hard. Of course, they are not working for a normal wage. Thus, the FLDS can win contracts because they are cheaper - after all other companies have to actually pay their contractors for their work.