Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey

"What! How is this still going! It’s disturbing watch underaged girls being married after being raised with the sole purpose of how to become ‘good wives.’ Using religion for excuse to rape and abuse, that’s not okay! “Keep sweet” (people have more emotion than just happiness and preventing them from feeling normal human feelings is harmful)! The abuse these women went through and the fact that their ‘leader’ is in prison and still controlling and manipulating this environment is terrifying. I could go on and on because this was infuriating and horrifying! #nonfiction #crime"

"I’ve watched a lot of Netflix docs in the last few years. This one is definitely the hardest to watch. It’s very well done but the subject content is going to break you down. "

"I don't think I'll ever forget this documentary I feel like it will be forever burned on my mind"

"I've read and watched more detailed and thorough accounts about the FLDS than this was, but it still helped fill in some gaps for me. I'd like to see an update story of recent years, after Warren Jeffs went to prison, because he is still running the church from prison, and word is he has become even more strict with the members since then. Last I heard he has forbidden marriage while he's incarcerated, which is devastating to his followers because plural marriage and having children is the basis for the entire religion in order to attain their highest salvation. And countless people still blindly follow his "teachings" without question. He has them convinced the only reason he's still in prison is because of their wickedness and that they are not praying hard enough or living righteous enough to be deserving of his presence so that's why the "gentiles" continue to persecute them. Crazy how much power one corrupt man can wield and how many lives he can hold hostage or destroy through that control."

""If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse them." - Mitchell Garabedian a stunning, sickening docuseries about a perfect storm of religious fundamentalism, child trafficking, pedophilia, and the objectification/ownership of women. obviously, warren jeffs is a monster, a sex offender, and a talented cult leader. but i can't help thinking of everyone who enabled him. i look at these men who joined this religious offshoot to accumulate young women like it was a golf club membership, and act surprised that they were then ousted once they were no longer useful. Talk about voting for the leopards eating people's faces party. i think about how not one of the people within the FLDS who stood up or said no to jeffs directly was a man. FLDS women had to do the work of running away, and get on the stand. i know undoing a lifetime of brainwashing is not easy. but jesus, the women who unashamedly lie for jeffs and continue to do so make my skin crawl. the refrain of 'how could my mother let this happen to me' is SO painful. cults are so difficult to uproot with this much money and infrastructure behind them. the human trafficking also checks out with the statistics: like sexual assault, most people who are trafficked are trafficked by people they know; in the case of trafficking, it's usually their own parents. i am glad that some have managed to survive."

"I had heard of Warren Jeffs but didn’t know all the details, but this blew me away! All of the things he did, It was heartbreaking to watch. "

"Fascinating. Definitely watch if you like a (wild) true story. "

"those poor girls"

"never let white men do anything ever again"

"5 Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ High Control Religions. Documentaries. Intergenerational Trauma. Cults. This is an informative and important documentary regarding high control religion groups. The documentary depicts the psychology of power and control dynamics, the impacts on people who have survived them, PR campaigns (public relations via manipulation), media literacy, legal issues in accountability, social issues, and social justice. Although the documentary focuses on one specific group, the more you understand high control religions, cults, and power and control dynamics, the more you are able to see the same psychological and behavioral tactics utilized by the leaders and the middle management, to create the same types of power hierarchies. These power hierarchies and structures, of different high control religion groups and social systems, often include the same abuses of power against people with less power in the system (often women and children) and often using the same types of harm and types of crime. Many people are attracted to these groups, in order to perpetuate these types of abuses of power. Similarly, many victims of these systems often transfer from one high control religion, cult, and/or abusive power system to another due to trauma related dynamics, fear of the unknown, and issues with transitioning into different types of systems or relationships that feel unfamiliar. People who have survived these systems, often do better after leaving with help from mental health professionals, who specialize in treating complex trauma and survivors of high control religious groups, cult survivors, and victims of abuse. "