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Old 05-21-2015, 02:08 PM
 
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And what does it have to do with Christianity?
Duggar makes money by being a professional Christian. He works as a lobbyist for a "Christian" special interest group in Washington, D.C. (Prior to landing that well-paying gig he was a used car salesman.) He is paid for appearing on his family's reality show which promotes (their version of) the Christian faith.

He's drawn a great deal of attention to himself. He has broadcast, via a TV show that is seen by millions of people, his Christian beliefs and faith. Looks like Duggar, who recently stood in front of the Capitol building and told people marriage equality and being gay were both sinful, should be worrying about his own sins.

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Old 05-21-2015, 02:08 PM
 
Location: SC
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It appears as though the family is surrounded by religious friends and church leaders on all sides, who are convicted sex offenders.

The cop who failed to act was a family friend who was later convicted on dozens of child porn counts. The son who is a molester is a spokesperson for an anti-gay hate group, and several other male family friends and church elders have perverted sexual abuse records.

Good thing they keep their women barefoot and at home with no job skills. Divorce is not allowed, so they have these girls and their innocent children strapped down real good in that cult of servitude and perversion.

Things will only get worse for this family in the future as the mind-cult that they belong to will only produce dysfunction. The only determining factor is how much they will be able to keep hush hush, like they did with this crime, for so many years, and what will come to the surface. It is the natural order of things when people have been raised to oppress and keep secret their natural way of being and maintain a façade of asexuality and "purity" like some sort of mentally castrated Eunuch. At least one of those kids is bound to have been born gay; the girls will be enslaved to potential abusers if they do not marry right, and they have all been taught since birth to keep quiet and appear 100% happy and perfect, like robots, at all times. It is a disaster waiting to happen as all 19 kids hit their teen and adult years. So unnatural.
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Old 05-21-2015, 02:08 PM
 
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I've researched a few of them and they all come from dysfunction, from what I've found. Scott Lively, the granddaddy of Gay Haters, was a drug-addicted alcoholic who hated his family until the day he "got saved" and then re-directed his hate and addiction at gay people. Look it up.
denverian's logic

a few of them = all
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Old 05-21-2015, 02:10 PM
 
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Maybe deep in his heart the kid is an atheist and that's what caused him to do what he did?
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Old 05-21-2015, 02:14 PM
 
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Maybe deep in his heart the kid is an atheist and that's what caused him to do what he did?
And maybe he is a circus clown, or an alien shape shifter...the possibilities are endless!
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Old 05-21-2015, 02:15 PM
 
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Maybe deep in his heart the kid is an atheist and that's what caused him to do what he did?
1) That's nothing but slander against atheists.

2) He's not a kid. He is 27 and a grown adult.
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Old 05-21-2015, 02:16 PM
 
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It appears as though the family is surrounded by religious friends and church leaders on all sides, who are convicted sex offenders.

The cop who failed to act was a family friend who was later convicted on dozens of child porn counts. The son who is a molester is a spokesperson for an anti-gay hate group, and several other male family friends and church elders have perverted sexual abuse records.

Good thing they keep their women barefoot and at home with no job skills. Divorce is not allowed, so they have these girls and their innocent children strapped down real good in that cult of servitude and perversion.

Things will only get worse for this family in the future as the mind-cult that they belong to will only produce dysfunction. The only determining factor is how much they will be able to keep hush hush, like they did with this crime, for so many years, and what will come to the surface. It is the natural order of things when people have been raised to oppress and keep secret their natural way of being and maintain a façade of asexuality and "purity" like some sort of mentally castrated Eunuch. At least one of those kids is bound to have been born gay; the girls will be enslaved to potential abusers if they do not marry right, and they have all been taught since birth to keep quiet and appear 100% happy and perfect, like robots, at all times. It is a disaster waiting to happen as all 19 kids hit their teen and adult years. So unnatural.
It's stuff like that which makes me an "angry" atheist. I see how these children are being raised and it makes me sick. I was raised in a conservative Christian sect so I know how religion can have a hugely negative impact on lives.
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Old 05-21-2015, 02:41 PM
 
Location: Denver, Colorado U.S.A.
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It appears as though the family is surrounded by religious friends and church leaders on all sides, who are convicted sex offenders.

The cop who failed to act was a family friend who was later convicted on dozens of child porn counts. The son who is a molester is a spokesperson for an anti-gay hate group, and several other male family friends and church elders have perverted sexual abuse records.

Good thing they keep their women barefoot and at home with no job skills. Divorce is not allowed, so they have these girls and their innocent children strapped down real good in that cult of servitude and perversion.

Things will only get worse for this family in the future as the mind-cult that they belong to will only produce dysfunction. The only determining factor is how much they will be able to keep hush hush, like they did with this crime, for so many years, and what will come to the surface. It is the natural order of things when people have been raised to oppress and keep secret their natural way of being and maintain a façade of asexuality and "purity" like some sort of mentally castrated Eunuch. At least one of those kids is bound to have been born gay; the girls will be enslaved to potential abusers if they do not marry right, and they have all been taught since birth to keep quiet and appear 100% happy and perfect, like robots, at all times. It is a disaster waiting to happen as all 19 kids hit their teen and adult years. So unnatural.
Yes, very true. Religious fundamentalism can be very dangerous, or dysfunctional, at a minimum. I've seen it in my own family. Cousins raised in a very sheltered manner, forced to memorize the Bible, forced to dress a certain way, always under parents' watchful eyes... then they ended up with drug arrest records and teen pregnancies.
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Old 05-21-2015, 02:42 PM
 
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Duggar Son Allegedly Admitted to Sexually Molesting Minor Girls, Including Sisters | TMZ.com

This is sad, but not surprising. Christian Fundamentalist and reality show star Josh Duggar, who works for the anti-gay hate group Family Research Counci,l molested his own sisters. What a disgusting, hypocritical dirt bag! And his family too... for covering it up.

Seems like all these big Fundy anti-gay "warriors" have some serious sexual and/or dysfunctional skeletons in their closets. These nuts claim it's the gays who are destroying families? HA! This pig was molesting his sisters!

I have no desires of pedophilia or incest, but then I've had a healthy acceptance of who I am and a healthy attitude about sex. Maybe this is what happens in the Duggar cult when you're raised with such extreme oppression. He probably thought it was better to feel up Sis than to masturbate!
How much is rumor, how much is true? Impossible to tell at this point. I'm reserving my opinion until any of it is confirmed as fact, or not.

As to the bolded, based on the statistics that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys are molested*, I would venture to say that a great many people from all walks of life have some skeletons in their closets.


* http://nctsn.org/nctsn_assets/pdfs/c...eFactSheet.pdf
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Old 05-21-2015, 02:44 PM
 
Location: USA
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Yes, very true. Religious fundamentalism can be very dangerous, or dysfunctional, at a minimum. I've seen it in my own family. Cousins raised in a very sheltered manner, forced to memorize the Bible, forced to dress a certain way, always under parents' watchful eyes... then they ended up with drug arrest records and teen pregnancies.
Agree.

The question is: how can it be stopped? I'm willing to join forces with liberal theists if necessary.
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