# I Was Raised in a Cult Believing I'd be Dead by 12

An episode of [What It Was Like](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1614354774), 17 Jan 2026, 53 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6200ee776bcd50001215d4e7/e/696b1c27f0f57e95a0211df9/media.mp3

Flor Edwards grew up in the Children of God, an authoritarian sect that taught its followers that the world would end in 1993. In this episode, she reflects on how it felt growing up expecting to die, and how the group responded when the apocalypse never came. Find us on TikTok: @whatitwaslikepodcast Find us on Youtube: @whatitwaslikepodcast Follow us on Instagram: whatitwaslikepodcast This is a Superreal production Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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