#duggars

[icedsodapop]

I just wish that people realize that none of the Duggar kids are our friends. While they do deserve our compassion for the abuse they've been through (esp the daughters), and to be able to unlearn all that harmful Fundie Christian rhetoric that they have internalized in private, they are still bigots and absolutely do not deserve public platforms and continued speaking opportunities. For example, Jill and her husband Derrick have yet to address or apologise for his transphobic and homophobic tweets aimed towards trans public figure Jazz Jennings and gay couple Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent, and in her latest book Counting the Cost, Jill dismissed the controversies as her husband simply "speaking his mind on various and making a few enemies".

[teamjanaduggar]

Jana Duggar & Stephen Wissmann are getting married!

Source: https://cisarkansas.com/search/?I=3376501

This means that Jedediah Duggar will both be her actual brother and her brother in law! And this means that Hannah Wissmann will be Stephen’s actual sister and sister in law. This means that Hannah is Jana’s sister in law twice over and Jedediah will be Stephen’s brother in law twice over.

[bookquotesfrombooks]

“It turns out that living with fearful thoughts is a lot like living with hornets and garter snakes. Once they find a way in, you can block as many holes as you like, but the struggle to keep them out will require constant vigilance. And when they do get in—which they will—the memory of all those previous attacks will make whatever you’re facing so much worse.”

Jill Duggar Dillard

Counting the Cost

[fundiebabez2]

So there’s that

[fundiesarefunny]

Remember when I was a founding father in this fundie community and now I barely am on here anymore?

Anyway, just bought Jinger’s audiobook, will update with a review

[local-fire-dumpster]

thinking about the the documentary shiny happy people and the duggars and how CPS has still not taken the kids away despite all the heinous shit that has been revealed about this fucked up fundie cult

[lilithsaintcrow]

“Mom giving birth would always give our ratings a spike, but it wasn’t the only life event that made for great TV. Whenever our producer, Scott, heard that one of us was going to start courting, his eyes would light up like a Christmas tree.”

I find this fascinating for a number of reasons, not least the light it shines on the malignant narcissism prioritized in evangelical "parenting techniques.”

It's very clear that to Jim-Bob Duggar, like to many narcissists, children are not actual human beings but ego extensions. They will act in the most bizarre ways in front of their children, because to them there's no actual person to witness the behavior. This is, of course, very congenial and conducive to highly abusive evangelical “parenting techniques", which are simply abuse and coercion with a gloss of King James quotes.

The dovetailing is just…seamless. And once one realizes "this person does not regard their children as human beings at all", so much more about the whole thing makes sense.

Especially the reaction when the children individuate, or reach adulthood and bolt for freedom.

The hunger for ratings and profit motive also dovetails nicely with the parental exploitation. The children aren't people, they're content and resources.

So, when the children try to escape, or even to halt the most painful abuse, the response from both abusive or evangelical parents OR the media company is basically "how dare my property run away!” An abusive or evangelical parent's response to children escaping is very much like a media corporation attempting to retain trammeled, exploited "stars”. Escalating attempts at hoovering and NDAs become overpoweringly important to the abuser/parent/media corp.

(And before you start to moan, “but there are GOOD evangelical parents too”, just ask yourself why you feel the need to cherry-pick that particular both-sides-ism and sit with yourself for a bit.)

[ltsaradharkness]

So there is a documentary on Amazon about the duggars and their whole background etc and I'm like lol see super creepy. There was something so wrong with Michelle when I watched some of these shows. I actually don't watch reality tv like this because of this show. I watch some stuff on history but even the Alaskan bush people show makes me go something is wrong here.

[gl-cult-archives]

The IFB created Josh Duggar

[lenbryant]

Shiny, happy people escaping the evangelicalism.

[wutbju]

Sigh, Shelly. Michelle Duggar is not a good connection.

[teamjanaduggar]

Jana & Stephen’s Honeymoon

They seem to be enjoying their beach-getaway-Honeymoon!

Per Reddit user Whiskpers

[writesaboutdragons]

365 Promises of God

Day 317 – We Receive the Adoption as Sons

But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. (Gal 4:4-5 NKJV)

Read: Galatians 4:1-5

Who hasn’t heard of the Duggar family? Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar had a 19-kid family that starred in a reality show on TLC until 2015. (All their kids’ names started with the letter J. Talk about confusing…) But not so many have heard of the Briggs Family of West Virginia.

Jeane and Paul Briggs are parents to a family of 38 children. Six biological, and 32 adopted. Jeane told BBC News in 2014 that her family began adopting after a fateful day in church, where she was shown a picture of a 2yo boy in a Mexican orphanage. The boy was blind and had been beaten so badly that he was in a body cast. His legs were broken and he had suffered brain damage. Her heart was broken for the little boy, and shortly after seeing that picture, she and her husband visited him at the orphanage. Several months later, they adopted Abraham. Since then, the Briggs have continued to adopt special needs kids from Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Ghana. Many of these kids suffered from abuse, neglect, or hunger when they were adopted. 34-yo Joseph, from the Ukraine, had a cleft palate and lip. Even the orphanage would not bring him with them on any outings, as his appearance would result in abuse and bullying. He was adopted in 2005 at the age of 14. It was a life-changing moment for him. Suddenly he was wanted. In a family that would take him wherever they went.

His and Abraham’s stories are not the exception in the Briggs family. They are the rule. 20 yo Andrew from Bulgaria is blind and suffered from a severe brain injury. He was adopted at the age of 5, and weighed only 17lbs. Many of the kids were abandoned, unwanted, unloved, or came from traumatic dysfunctional homes. And they’ve suffered disappointments in the adoption process, too. There were a pair of twins they were almost through the process of adopting from Uzbekistan, when the country changed its laws, and the adoption could not proceed. The experience was devastating for Jeane, and she compared the loss to a miscarriage she’d suffered.

God is also in the business of adopting kids. You and me, dear Christian. Among billions of other brothers and sisters in Christ. We are all adopted into His family, because of the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross for us. Have you felt unwanted, unloved, abandoned? God has adopted you, and you will never be unloved again.

Prayer:

Oh Father, you’ve adopted me into your large family, and I don’t even get lost among the many faces. Please send me to someone who needs to be adopted too, today. Amen

[rickchung]

Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets (prods. Olivia Crist & Julia Willoughby Nason).

Having nineteen children at all is probably child abuse alone. Never mind putting them all on television for profit and making sure none of them are educated except for the oldest son, whose sexual abuse of his own sisters you sweep under the rug until he becomes a convicted predator as an adult. Amazon's three-part docuseries delves into the multi-faceted cult-like elements of the Institute in Basic Life Principles Christian fundamentalist religious movement popularized by Jim Duggar's growing family seen (and exploited) on reality television. It's an exhaustively damning portrait of patriarchal abuse disguised as religious freedom.

[batiekear]

Roe vs. Wade and the Quiverfull Movement

***Trigger warning: Christian Fundamentalism, sexual assault, Wicca, mental illness, religion*** The first time I was ever committed to a psyche ward due to my schitzoaffective (bi-polar type), I took comfort in reading some of the Psalms, even though I am not a Christian. Despite the fact that I don’t believe in the Bible, it still has some words of wisdom that have helped me realize my real…