Woman, 24, who grew up in a CULT lifts the lid on all the ‘extremist’ rules she was forced to follow as a member of the religious sect
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A young woman from Albuquerque, New Mexico, has taken to TikTok to speak out about her upbringing in a Christian cult.
Marissa Martin, 24, was spurred to address her childhood after admitting she was lucky for the lack of ‘hate’ she has usually received on her posts – but with one major exception: Christians on the defensive.
‘I want to talk about the fact that I don’t ever get hate on my videos, which is amazing, I have really amazing viewers,’ she began, also simultaneously testing out a recipe combining raspberry syrup and iced matcha.
‘But the one kind of video that I make that I get hate on every time is when I talk about the cult I grew up in,’ she described.
‘This cult I grew up in, yes it was a Christian cult. So a lot of Christians that watch my videos or see the video get personally offended by me saying, “I grew up in a cult,”‘ she went on.
‘But here’s the thing – it was an extremist Christian religion. Extremist, okay?’
Specifically, her family had been in the Independent Fundamental Baptist church.
The organization, composed of local churches preaching deeply fundamentalist Christian messaging, was the subject of 2023 docuseries Let Us Prey: A Ministry of Scandals.
The harrowing docuseries highlighted in particular the unchecked sexual abuse of women and children running rampant across the congregations.
Marissa went on to elaborate on the strict dress code that only permitted ‘solid white’ casual shoes – while ‘dress shoes’ could be solid black.
She continued: ‘We had to wear skirts down to the mids of our calves. We couldn’t show our ankles. We had to wear crew socks. We also had to wear pantyhose [under skirts].
‘We couldn’t show our shoulders. We couldn’t show our collarbones.’
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