I think this is spot on.
The writer presents a convoluted pattern of logic, but is ultimately effective in making his point.
Without a doubt the stupidest, most tendentious heap of shite I have read this month. CONGRATS!!
I believe the non-biblical argument rests on the concept of “consent”, whereas a “child” cannot consent.
Is hypocrisy a sin ? It seems to me that the greatest sin a liberal finds in a conservative Christian is hypocrisy. to them not any of the 10 commandments are worse than the act of hypocrisy. Why do we allow this presumption?
By far the highest incidence of pedophilia is in the male homosexual community, where they even formed an international organization called NAMBLA, to promote the rape of young boys. This is the group that goes by the moniker of “gay.”
I’ll give one for the Mormons, The Osmonds never had a scandal like this.
Didn’t Lena what’s her name basically admit to the same thing? Did she lose here TV show?
I’ve made the same argument but a little differently.
Atheists believe they can be a “good” person without religion. Ask them to define “good”, as other countries define it very differently. If you’d grown up in a Muslim country it is “good” to stone an adulterer to death. It is “good” to kill an apostate, etc..
So one’s definition of “good” is culturally influenced. In the USA the culture is saturated with millennia of Judeo-Christian ethics and is simply taken for granted as “good” by atheists. Therefore, to argue with an atheist, you simply have to challenge the ethics basis for their view. If there is no God, and we’re all just walking chemical reactions, why is it wrong to kill? steal? Isn’t “strongest of the fittest” just natural selection in practice? Why shouldn’t it apply to us? It definitely has been that way with other cultures in the past, historically it has been more of the norm. There’s nothing to indicate that man is “innately good”, quite the opposite.
So what has lifted man, at least in the west, out of this barbaric understanding? The answer is painfully simple and atheists don’t want to hear it - Jesus Christ.
This guy Duggar has what could eventually be his own Warren Jeffs-style commune except everyone is related!
Great.
Joshn is not a hypocrite.
Just a run of the mill child molester.
Does the author feel better now?
He's a pedophile and into incest. That's two huge character flaws in my book.
And for those who want to say "well, nobody's perfect" .... stuff it.
This is being treated on the level of brute, raw politics and that is why the unbelieving world is so gleeful.
It isn’t seeing Christ, or even evangelistic efforts. If it did, the discussion could be moved onto a different level, to a God who never excuses but will always forgive, as well to a universally guilty and needy mankind.
This world can only see what looks like a political pressure group trying to force certain governing practices that it does not want. And so morally discrediting the group looks attractive.
In my humble, or proud, or somewhere in between, opinion of course.
So while Josh Duggar may be a hypocrite who needs to face up to the consequences of his actions, the radical “freethinker” community is really the last group of people who have any business pointing it out.
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Mega-dittoes. Not only is this true, but ANY godless liberal Hollywood type who is using the Duggar story as a “gotcha” moment to slam Christianity.
WHO CARES what religion or lack thereof a person follows when he commits a crime? Hypocrisy is not a crime; destroying a child’s life by betraying her trust and using her body to achieve sexual pleasure IS A TERRIBLE LIFE DESTROYING CRIME.
Their religion is a non sequitur at that point.