Book Review: Jesus Land, A Memoir, by Julia Scheeres
** This is a BuzzFlash Review of a new book by California journalist Julia Scheeres. She writes about growing up in a fundamentalist Christian home. She must have had a sheltered if somewhat narrow childhood, so you think.... Well, that couldn't be further from the truth.... --- AnnamarieJesus Land, A Memoir
by Julia Scheeres
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This memoir by a California journalist of her childhood with cruel, brutal Christian fundamentalist parents is profoundly revealing and moving on many levels. It's not meant as a political commentary, but one can't help continually comparing the public hypocrisy of the Christian right with the private Hell that Julia Scheeres endured, along with her adopted brothers, at the hands of "Jesus loving" parents who were -- in effect -- "God fearing" child abusers.
The cumulative result of living in a world where devotion to Jesus was best evidenced by wanton cruelty would have been devastating to us at BuzzFlash. But Julia Sheeres survived to become a San-Francisco based journalist and to write this remarkable recollection of her upbringing.....
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