Jesus indeed will forgive him if he has truly asked Him for it. However I am not required to do so and neither are his sisters.
Incest is a pretty serious offense. So is molestation of a child. I don’t believe there is a cure for pedophilia. It is usually managed by keeping the perpetrator away from children. Those poor girls were required to live with their attacker for years while their parents hid it from the public. I don’t believe any of those children received any kind of counseling except to consult with church elders and send Josh out to work re-modeling houses with a family friend.
The father claims to control the girl’s lives restricting what they wear, where they go, who they “court” etc. under the pretense of protecting them but then allows a predator who lives under his roof to live with them. Does that not bother you?
I do not know if Josh will ever molest a child again but is his wife willing to gamble with her daughter? I wouldn’t. Would you want Josh to babysit or marry YOUR daughter?
These girls lives have been changed forever. It is not like Josh simply got drunk and naked at a frat party. This is not a simple teenage prank. He wasn’t just caught smoking pot.
Yes, all of us have been young once and perhaps did a few things we’d like to forget. Not many of us can count incest and child molestation as one of our teenage missteps. This is not a victimless crime. I’m not concerned one whit about Josh. Let God deal with him. I do have great sympathy however for his victims.
Moreover, you would think that after something as shameful as what Josh did he would want to keep a low profile. I would think the entire family would want to. Instead they went on television and exposed their lives for everyone to see. And so did Josh. He accepted a job, keeping his past from them, as a representative of a Christian family activist group. Does that sound like the actions of someone who is truly sorry and ashamed for what he did?
Very well said.
BULLSHIITE LADY!!!
First of all...Josh didn't sin AGAINST YOU.
There is nothing for YOU to "forgive" him over.
You are CHOOSING to hold an offense against him simply because you choose to be self righteous.
I don’t believe any of those children received any kind of counseling except to consult with church elders and send Josh out to work re-modeling houses with a family friend.
What you believe MEANS NOTHING. You weren't there. You don't know those involved. You know nothing.
You have a belief...AN OPINION...based on what you WANT to believe.
The father claims to control the girl’s lives restricting what they wear, where they go, who they “court” etc. under the pretense of protecting them but then allows a predator who lives under his roof to live with them. Does that not bother you?
I don't know what happened in that house. If I were in Jim Bob's shoes, first thing that happens is I pick him up by his neck and carry him out back. And I don't mean for a game of cards or paddycake.
After that... I don't know. Simply because...I don't.
I'd be scared.
More like terrified.
Smoking pot or cigarettes or shop lifting are "easy" things to handle.
I've watched 2 dads deal with it.
I don't know how I would.
> Moreover, you would think that after something as shameful as what Josh did he would want to keep a low profile. I would think the entire family would want to. Instead they went on television and exposed their lives for everyone to see. And so did Josh. He accepted a job, keeping his past from them, as a representative of a Christian family activist group. Does that sound like the actions of someone who is truly sorry and ashamed for what he did?
This is what really disturbs me as well. The show was launched a few scant years after Josh assaulted his sisters and the parents failed to get Josh or his victims help or counselling from professionals (Josh’s “counselling” was being shipped to a family friend in the construction business). No word on what, if anything, they did for the poor girls.
This family is rotten from the root. Jim Bob and Michelle made the decision to glorify themselves on TV after failing to handle a serious crime in their family. I’m very worried about Josh’s victims, and Josh’s CHILDREN INCLUDING LITTLE GIRLS!