Destroying Their God
How I Fought My Evil Half-Brother to Save My Children
by Wallace Jeffs
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Pub Date Jun 06 2018 | Archive Date Dec 06 2018
Zarahemla Books | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles
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Description
In 1991, Wallace Jeffs was coerced to become an FLDS polygamist.
In 2011, Wallace rebelled against the sect, and the FBI helped him reclaim his kidnapped children.
Then an “accident” put Wallace into a forty-five-day coma.
Growing up as half-brother to future Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saint prophet Warren Jeffs, Wallace tried to follow FLDS teachings. After he built a successful business, the church required him to marry a second wife. Wallace fathered twenty children, but he never felt comfortable with polygamy or many other FLDS beliefs.
As his prophet-brother increasingly manipulated him, Wallace started hearing about FLDS atrocities. On the day the FBI arrested Warren Jeffs for child rape, the prophet was en route to reclaim Wallace’s second wife for himself. Wallace defied the prophet and soon ended up in a coma. Though Wallace feared FLDS sabotage caused his car crash, he kept fighting the sect.
With today’s movement against male abusers, Wallace’s story reminds us that power and position don’t corrupt all men. In 2018, Wallace found resolution by marrying an LDS woman in the Salt Lake Temple. At the same time, he renews our concern for the thousands who still live under FLDS control, including some of Wallace’s own children.
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| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780999347218 |
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Featured Reviews
Crystal W, Reviewer
This book grabs you and holds you till the end. Very informative and engrossing. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would highly recommend it.
Donald J, Reviewer
The mix of religion and current events is always enticing. This book is an easy and engaging read to provide further insight into the mis-deeds of Warren Jeffs and the disgraceful way he treated people in the name of God. It is a great reminder that religion can be bad when people give too much authority to a person and follow him or her instead of being led by the Holy Spirit and what God actually says about his character and plan in His Word. Hoping this book will cause the reader to seek out the truth after exposure to how bad it can be to follow otherwise blindly.
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Helen M, Reviewer
Wow. Will need more time to digest what I've just read ... but ... wow! I have previously read Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer so I have some knowledge of the FLDS but this inside, very subjective view was brutal and shocking.
The book is written from the point of view of Wallace Jeffs, half brother to the current FLDS prophet (and convicted child sex offender) Warren Jeffs, son of the previous FLDS prophet Rulon Jeffs, and tells his story from childhood and teenage years, growing up in a household of numerous 'mothers' and siblings, through to adulthood, his plural marriages, and his final banishment from the 'Church'. It is a deeply personal account of life within the confines of the FLDS theocracy and the constant conflict individuals experience as they grapple with a leader whose lust for power and control seemingly knows no bounds.
At times I couldn't believe what I was reading, and it begged me to wonder if some things had been 'sensationalised' for publicity purposes, but whilst there are no sources cited in the book to verify what was written, a simple Google search was all that was required to gather relevant evidence.
It is clear that Warren Jeffs is evil beyond measure and is more than deserving of his life in prison sentence but what I simply don't understand, even more so after reading this book, is the level of blind obedience given to him by his followers. How is one man able to dominate such a large group of people and basically bend their lives to his will? What is it about him that makes fathers hand over their pre-teen daughters to much older men in marriage? And how is he still able to exert this power and control from behind bars?
This book certainly raised more questions for me than it answered but I commend the bravery and courage displayed by Wallace in never giving up on his children whilst seeking to expose the FLDS for what it truly is, a despotic, autocratic regime hiding in plain sight in modern day America.
This book will stay with me for a long time and I am thankful to NetGalley for the opportunity to read it.
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