Interview · moment 3 of 19
Jessa's Pattern of Dating Pastor's Kids and a Satanist Husband
from The Morman and the Meth Head with Jessa Reed and Aaron Woodall · #120
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3 minGuest
Jessa explains her lifelong attraction to indoctrinated men, listing her exes including multiple pastor's kids and a ten-year marriage to a LaVeyan Satanist, with Tim probing whether that Satanism involved actual black masses (it didn't).
- 3:55Jessa describes a lifelong pattern of attraction to indoctrinated men, starting with marrying a pastor's kid at 16.
- 4:13After multiple pastor's kid relationships, she married a Satanist and stayed married for 10 years.
- 4:32Tim explains that LaVey Satanism is essentially Buddhism with a performative 'fuck you' rather than actual devil worship.
- 5:21Jessa clarifies her ex-husband didn't attend black masses; his Satanism was philosophical, not performative.
- 5:34They had a Wiccan priestess marry them instead of a Catholic priest.
- 6:00Tim asks what attracts her to indoctrinated men, whether she's drawn to their certainty or lacks that quality herself.
- 6:18Jessa attributes her attraction to indoctrinated men to growing up on the wrong side of the tracks and lacking that programming.
- 6:36During her meth use, she thought of herself as a backslidden Christian before the alien experience happened.
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