“It seems sometimes the most religious people are the most wicked.”
I can see how you arrive at that assumption, but this guy isn’t religious.
Don’t assume that it’s the perceived religiosity that, for example, got this weird-a$$ family on TV and gained them fame and fortune. Most often when you see someone who seems religious - or at least s/he claims to be religious - but then he’s on TV: That should cast some doubt on things right there. He claims to love Nob, but....hm....he’s on television....hmmmm....
There may be some people of genuine faith who are on television, but I wouldn’t want the task of finding them. (Isn’t good old Tucker, supposedly a “real religious conservative,” friendly with Punter Pieden to the point that he covered for one of his scandals? That’s what I read, and it’s not hard to believe! So much for Tucker! I mean, he can do the commentary - talk the talk - but as far as “religious conservative” goes, meh. Just give me the news and collect your giant paycheck from the liberal news media, and stick the rest you-know-where.)
I would opine that the TV folks already knew this guy Josh D was a freak and they got put on TV because “Won’t it be a ratings hit when he’s finally busted? And it’ll make the Baptists look TERRIBLE!!!”
When someone like that gets caught it makes all people of professed faith suspect. It really IS hard to tell a sincere Xtian or conservative these days because - and I apologize advance for saying this, but it’s true - it’s so easy to talk the talk. You don’t have to walk the walk, necessarily, but it’s easy to fake that, too. (Weren’t Brack and Moo regular attendees at their local “place of worship”....? You see someone at church every week when he could be watching TV, you aren’t going to grill him over his credentials.)
Just like you can learn enough English to get by watching “sesame street,” you can learn enough religiosity from watching TV evangelism.
It’s unfortunate that so many people these days have no understanding of religious faith or worship and that this lack of understanding leads to such errors as millions of people thinking that Josh Duggar is a typical Baptist.
they think it’s a shield...
I grew up in a Baptist Church, went to Baptist schools. Dad was a Deacon and my Dad is a preacher in his retirement as a general contractor. The nastiest people I have ever met were "religious". That's the reason I am atheist.