Posted on 06/06/2015 10:48:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I’ve never watched The Duggars' "Reality Show". The initial and subsequent promos for it never really flicked my switch. There wasn’t enough crap blowing up, guns blazing, mud soaked monster Jeeps slingin’ caliche, or… enough crap blowing up.
For moi, sitting around and watching a couple with nineteen kids wearing Mormon dresses with Pentecostal hairdos do chores and squabble about Scrabble didn’t really pique my interests. Call me carnal.
No, when I watch TV it’s either the news, Netflix, Hitchens on YouTube, chick flicks (for my wife), horror movies and/or warrior pics for me or one of Mark Sullivan's dangerous game hunting DVDs that I usually have on a loop like the Warren Commission did The Zapruder Film. Exciting, eh? :P
I said all that to say this: I don’t have a dog in the Duggar hunt. I’m no glaze-eyed Jim Bob devotee who’ll defend them to the death because I’ve been watching that show and have evangelized others to do so. I’m not a fan and probably will never be one. That said, I don’t wish them ill and I hope they pull out of this harmatological hell that has hit their home.
I will tell you, however, that there is someone out there who is McLovin’ on The Duggars right now. Her name? Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Why do I think the old Hildebeest be diggin’ on the Duggar debacle? Well, it’s principally because it’s keeping the coverage off her abysmally unattended stump speeches, her intergalactic horse-scat and the disgustingly dirty Clinton Cash. Which, by the way, will have more massive long-term, detrimental ramifications for our nation, if she’s elected, then any demonic thing that Duggar dude ever did. Please tell that to Good Morning America. And that's not diminishing anything Josh did to his kid sisters, mind you.
Yep, I guarantee Hillary is in some underground lair donned in a Dr. Evil nehru suit, maniacally laughing her haggard backside off that the limelight is on Josh instead of her dirty deeds done on our dime.
Matter of fact, I wouldn’t doubt if her cabal had that police chief yield up the sealed Duggar intel to InTouch because it was in Little Rock, y’know? I wonder if that police chief has any connections to The Clintons? Any campaign contributions? Any soirees over lemonade and sweet potato pie? Now, that would be worth poking around a bit, wouldn’t it? Maybe Peter Schweitzer’s team could take a little "look see" as they say in Arkansas? But that’s enough of my right-wing conspiracy theories.
Now to my point: According to The Left, unless one’s perfect you can’t call sin, sin. Jim Bob’s and Josh’s denunciations of homosexuality, according to Libs, is illegit because of Josh’s past gross vices, even though he confessed them and repented of them. That’s what I’m getting as the main rub that folks have with the Duggars and their Christian values they've extrapolated on our crappy culture. Am I right? It’s the "who are they to judge when they’ve got T-Rex size skeletons in their nine-teen closets" argument, correct?
To some extent I agree with the Duggars' detractors, namely, that those who have failed miserably should keep that in mind when they carp on others' bents. I believe that encapsulates the Matthew 7:1-5 maxim which translates into redneck: "tread lightly when you bash others and always, as a fallen critter, err on the side of grace because ‘except for by the grace of God … there go I'."
But the label the Left is attempting to placard the Duggars with, i.e. "hypocrisy" doesn’t fit him/them in this case as far as the biblical definition of the word goes. Hypocrisy, according to Jesus, Joseph and Mary, is condemning in others what you’re currently practicing or have practiced in the past and have yet to repent of.
It is not hypocritical for repentant sinners to point out what the Scripture states is bad behavior. Duh. If that were true there would be no biblical instructions, as it was written, by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, by a bunch of saints who had sinful San Andreas sized faults.
For instance:
• Solomon wrote about true love, avoiding adultery, the destructive power of lust -- and he tapped more booty than Hugh Hefner and Dan Bilzerain combined.
• Moses preached "thou shall not kill" after he killed an Egyptian dude.
• Abraham is a main example for Jews and Christians and he lied about being married -- twice.
• Noah preached righteousness and condemned the world’s sin -- and got so wasted he passed out butt naked on the floor.
• Samson, a great judge in Israel, dated a hooker. Hello.
• King David, who wrote about loving God and hating evil, boinked Bathsheba and had her husband killed to cover up his love child. That’s some House Of Cards stuff right there folks.
• Peter condemned cowardice and unbelief and he was an unbelieving coward at one point.
• Paul preached love and forgiveness -- and was a blood-stained overseer to multiple murders of Christians.
All of the aforementioned preached against sin from a radically sin-laden past. The only perfect person to every walk this planet was Jesus; and when he lambasted people's bad behavior they crucified him. That fact of the matter is that God uses, as he has done in the past, deeply jacked up, yet repentant, people to communicate his prescribed righteous ways.
So, does this excuse, condone or make light of Josh's teenaged transgressions? Hell, no. Is Josh Duggar a hideous hypocrite or a broken dude trying to do what's right? Heck if I know. My intent with this screed is to point out that God chooses and uses the base, the corrupt and the vile (1Cor.1:26-31), quite often, to speak truth to culture and we often miss the message by focusing on the messed up messenger.
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[Here we have young teens being charged as adults for sexual assault.]
Was Josh charged with any offense?
“Was Josh charged with any offense?”
No, and that illustrates a major problem in the liberalness of the America legal system.
Too many people suspected of sex crimes are not prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
I can’t compare the Duggars to great biblical heroes until they do something heroic. Right now they are just hypocrites.
I would never go on TV and have a reality show.
“[Here we have young teens being charged as adults for sexual assault.]
Was Josh charged with any offense?”
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In the post you linked to she/he/”it” posted a link to a story where 4 underage boys were charged as adults. However, that case was FAR, FAR more problematic. Here’s an extract from her/his/its linked article:
“...The four... are accused of getting the two girls drunk on Smirnoff vodka and Sprite and assaulting them, investigators said.
A homeowner called deputies after hearing moans coming from the canal in the 10000 block of Old Bridgeport Lane, the arrest report said. When deputies arrived, they found the girls unconscious, one of them in a fetal position, naked from the waist down. The girls were taken to West Boca Medical Center for treatment....”
IMHO she/he/it is trying (as she/he/it repeatedly has been doing) to conflate much more serious crimes with what the 13/14 year old Duggar did. It’s like someone trying to say a boy “battering” a brother in the chest with a peashooter is equivalent with the crime of an underage boy shooting a person in the gut with a 9mm pistol and advocating that the peashooter boy should be charged with “battery” as an ADULT and penalized accordingly.
I don’t know how to account for the degree of vitriol being displayed relative to the Duggar family. For some it may be jealousy of the Duggar’s financial success, it may be because the Duggars are devout Christians, it may be envy because they have so many (well-adjusted and decent) children who are growing up to be responsible adults. Or it may be because of something else-—but, whatever it is, they are clearly blowing things way out of proportion.
In any case, I thank God that it is families such as the Duggars who are having large numbers of children and raising them to be devout Christians/Jews. I suspect that many (not all of course) of the folks participating in the online jihad against the Duggars aren’t blessed with many children and thus are not reproducing themselves. The fact that they are not replicating themselves is a good thing in my book.
Are you serious? You would ruin the life of a child and have him never able to live near a school or marry someone with children for the rest of his life because of some ignorant fumbling around as a teenager? No, you should go to his parents and receive assurances that they would teach him right from wrong and keep him in line; you would teach your daughters how to avoid "bad touch" situations and absolve them from guilt if they did nothing wrong; and you would not ruin another family unless there were repeated episodes or aggression.
Women want to be equal but if someone touches them over their clothes, they want the smelling salts and fainting couch? Please.
Teach your daughters about the reality — guys want "it" all the time until they are about 28, so women must learn to avoid situations. From then on, guys want "it" about half the time until they are 38. Then they are lucky to be able to have "it" at all — just when the women start to want "it" all the time.
Femnazi.
At this point in time, the MSM has flooded the airwaves and internet with so much bogus mis-information and innuendo that there isn't a damn person out there that actually knows the entire facts surrounding this Duggar individual.......
I'm just waiting for the next report that says Josh Duggar eats babies..............
Oh I'm a hard case he says, well listen up Sonny Jim, I ate a baby! Oh aye, baby! The other other white meat. Baby, it's what's for dinner!
I haven’t seen any misinformation about the basic facts. in fact, the Duggar’s admitted them. Will the Press try and hang Christians out to dry? Of course they will. But that changes nothing.
Prosecute ‘em. Now.
After giving this further thought, you’re absolutely right! A fourteen year old boy who admitted to his parents that he inappropriately touched his sisters in their sleep ranks right up there with the sexual deviancies of Jimmy Swaggert and his fellow charlatan Baptist preachers and all the Catholic pedophile priests.
There is only one way to deal with this abomination and that’s to either stone the Duggar to death or hang him from a cross for his sins!
I’m sure you're on board with me............DEATH TO THE DUGGAR!!!!!
Better yet, death or prosecution of ALL Christian hypocrites!
“Better yet, death or prosecution of ALL Christian hypocrites!”
God has that part under control, but a little wholesale killin’ has a way of focusing people’s attention.
Great suggestion.
Thank you. Good call.
I understand a bit more now; thanks for sharing.
It became my business when they went on the reality show.
First this was more than a kid fumbling around.
He was touching his 4 year old little sister.
He’s a high school kid. Kids that age know that touching (and maybe more) know that is wrong.
A friend of mines 3 year old daughter was molested by their 18 year old babysitter. He was caught because he took pictures and his camera was stolen. The molester is still in jail. He did not do more than touch and photograph the girl.
I don’t know if I’m comfortable sending a 14 year old to jail, but I am not comfortable with him being around little girls.
Ansel12 doesn’t troll
And neither do you
So I command you with no authority to be nice to one another
I’m answering for me
With Kenny Bunk dying a few days ago were running low on good people
Think about it
We got plenty of dumbasses here
You haven't been actually reading the threads you have participated in, then?
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