Posted on 05/27/2015 6:30:45 AM PDT by grame
Leo Tolstoy famously wrote, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The problem is that I’ve yet to meet a family that fits into Tolstoy’s tidy categories of “happy” and “unhappy.” The reality is far messier. Put tears and laughter, love and betrayal, fights and hugs into a blender and out will come a family. Even in homes where the walls are decorated with portraits of grinning moms and dads and kids, there’s usually a closet door that’s kept shut. Last week we were reminded of that, when the media flung open that door in the Duggar family home. And the skeletons came spilling out.
(Excerpt) Read more at liberate.org ...
Well played!
Maybe I didn't follow the story close enough, but when did this kid rape his sister when she was a baby...
I don't condone what he did, but what you claim is far worse than what I have read about his misdeeds...
Or are you just blowing smoke out of your piehole...
Great article, Chad and Daniel.
Digital rape is a thing.
A four year old is a baby.
Are you fine with that?
Just some good old righteous Duggar-style fun, you betcha.
A four year old is a baby.
Are you fine with that?
Why would you say such an asinine thing?...
Like I said, maybe I didn't follow the story as closely...
This drivel is the primary cause of society’s disdain for biblical Christianity.
No, we are not all the Duggars. I do not identify with them in any way. The choices made by them are bearing fruit and by their fruit they are known.
I disdain perverts who grope the privates of five year-olds, and who keep doing so despite being caught red-handed.
I disdain creepy, cult-member parents who cover it up and go on to accept a TV show so they can hold themselves & their molesting son up as moral examples.
I disdain those same parents for playing "See what we can do because we're married, but you can't" games in front of their teenaged daughter and her fiancee...namely the father grinding his pelvis into his wife's butt, and kissing her and asking, "Did that turn you on?"
So, no...we might all have our own sins to answer for, but I'm thankful to say we are not all the Duggars.
I am NOT like these people. Yes, there is dysfunction in families but child molesters we are not!
I’m afraid you may be right. It goes along with the “all sins are equal” idea that is prevalent in Christianity today. All sins do separate us from God, none are righteous. We all need Christ to redeem us and cleanse our sin. But it is silly to say all sins are equal in the eyes of God. If that were true then why did He write Leviticus and Dueteronomy? Why have different punishments depending on the sin? Yes all sin damns us to hell, but they are not all equal
Saying we are all Duggars is the same thing. Christ’s power of redemption is real and anyone can be cleansed from their sin, but it’s not necessarily true that all who claim to be saved have submitted fully to Christ. Neither is it true that all experience a sudden and complete healing from their sinful desires. Sometimes a person’s belief in Christ’s ability to redeem and change a heart is becomes a belief in the person claiming their heart is changed. I saw it in our pastor with a rather dangerous sex offender he was working with and who was attending our church. In his mind, people not trusting that man became people who didn’t believe in the power of Christ. It turned out that our pastor had fallen for this guy’s lies hook, line and sinker. He was not a changed man, just a deceptive one.
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on. There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged. And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment. Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven. And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also? 50And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.
At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
I’ll take Mother Theresa over them any day of the week. That woman lived it.
Some of these articles are just weird.
Me neither.
I'm an only child...
Who is this “We”?
I didn’t pimp out my children on TV after allowing their molester back into the home to do it again.
I don’t associate with a seemingly endless number of pedophiles as the Duggars do. Ever wonder why they know and associate with so many child molesters?
And I didn’t claim to be healed, only to torture my victims on TV with incest jokes.
But if you claim kinship with them, may God have mercy on you.
Lived what? She told people there was no need for them to come to Jesus. If they were Hindus, just be a good Hindu. If a Muslim, be a good Muslim. Sounds anti-Christ.
I don’t need the Duggars to show me a believers’ family are capable of sexual sin, including rape...I have King David and his clan.
David was called “a man after God’s own heart”, so silly provincial Christians can just DEAL.
On second thought, you must be right. She was much worse than the Duggars.
[Luke 18:13] And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
[14] I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
That said it all to me regarding her.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.