In case anyone wonders why I care about the #Duggars and #quiverfull people: these policies in states like Texas are directly related to the #Dominionist "Joshua Generation" and the evangelical plan to take over politics. #rightwingextremism #antiabortionlaws #authoritarianism #AmericanTaliban https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-1-2023

Watching the Duggar show, finally. Mostly vindicating because I've known what this shit was really about for a very long time. But also infuriating, esp when I saw Michelle Duggar deliver her 19th by c-section and have a miscarriage in her 20th pregnancy. Good thing nobody interfered with her medical care in those instances! #Duggars #shinyhappypeople #quiverfulls #dominionists

Josh Duggar’s request for a new trial over his child pornography conviction is denied

#US #JoshDuggar #JoshDuggarPedophile #Rapist #Pedophile #Childmolestor #atheism #atheist #Antitheism #Duggars

https://deadstate.org/josh-duggars-request-for-a-new-trial-over-his-child-pornography-conviction-is-denied/

Oh. My. God.

I’ve had it with these folks and their mean babble-based ignorance.

#racism #disinformation #slavery #history #WhitePrivilege #ignorance #Duggars #religion #whitewashing

https://baptistnews.com/article/duggar-in-law-preaches-that-slavery-was-abolished-after-blacks-humbled-themselves/

Kristn du Mez notes that Amazon Prime's searching exposé of the Duggar family and Gotherd's IBLP "Shiny Happy People" reached mopre viewers in its first 9 days than any Amazon docuseries. It also brought more new subscribers than any previous Amazon docuseries, more than 60% of those women, many in the 18-34 age demographic.

#Duggars #evangelicals #women #patriarchy #abuse #BillGothard

https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/what-i-really-think-about-shiny-happy

"Because he spoke to the most motivated and dedicated cohort of evangelicals in America, his teachings spread deep into American churches. Gothard’s concepts became part of the fabric of evangelical life even for people who’d never heard of the Basic Seminar."

We'd like to think that this is an extreme, exotic strand of US Christianity, with its demand that women submit to men and its rigid gender roles. But it's far more normative than we want to see.

#Duggars #BillGothard #evangelicals
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David French on Bill Gothard's Institute for Basic Life Principles, central to the Duggar family story now on display in "Shiny Happy People":

"Gothard’s teaching didn’t reach just the millions of Christians he claims have attended his seminars."

#Duggars #BillGothard #IBLP #evangelicals #authoritarianism #patriarchy #misogyny
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/opinion/shiny-happy-people.html

https://krdo.com/news/2023/06/08/a-new-documentary-series-on-the-duggar-family-highlights-a-controversial-religious-group-ex-members-share-their-stories/ #ReligiousTrauma #Duggars #IBLP

Have you seen the #shinyhappypeople docuseries exposing the #Duggars & the #IBLP #Gothard #cult? It is important because it exposes #conservative #evangelical #christianity in the #USA and how long plans have been in motion to basically take over all levels of government - but especially the #scotus . Here’s my B4 & after fundie, Gothardesque pic. #iGotOut

Relatable quote from #ShinyHappyPeople that doesn’t just apply to fundamentalism and cults.

“We had this power the entire time over the people who were hurting us. It turns out, as much as they tried to control us, we were ultimately what they most feared, and all we had to do was talk.”

Chad Harris

#Duggars #ShinyHappyPeople #exmo #exmormon #exvangelical #AbuseCulture

The reason fundamentalist fathers are so restrictive and protective of their daughters is because they’re afraid other men will treat their daughters the same way they treat other women.

#Duggars #ShinyHappyPeople #AbuseCulture #cult #exmo #exmormon #exvangelical

We watched all four episodes of a new documentary series on Amazon Prime last night called “Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets”, and it was pretty amazing. The parents in that family are awful, but the leaders of the cult they are members of are pure evil. Their disciples have infiltrated “mainstream” churches, and have gotten people into elected positions of power, with the sole intention of spreading their evil dogma.

#religion #tlc #duggars #cult #amazon

6. Those who respond, "Well, they have a right to their peculiar religious beliefs," spectacularly miss the point. The point is that they intend to impose these beliefs on you and me, by law and they are working tirelessly to achieve that goal.

7. Spot the people of color in the footage of IBLP gatherings or young IBLP folks being groomed for political power. I challenge you to find them in any of that footage.

#Duggars #fundamentalism #gender #GenderRoles #misogyny #patriarchy
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This female role is not only modeled: it's imposed by force on girls and young women, through disciplinary means, with older women as the enforcers.

And younger women just keep flocking to the movement, asking to be abused by men. Why?

#Duggars #fundamentalism #gender #GenderRoles #misogyny #patriarchy #pedophilia
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4. One of the most stomach-churning aspects of the series is watching women in the IBLP network groom girls to be the kind of women the men leading the movement want: utterly submissive, hanging on men's every word, uttering mindless nothings in litte-girly voices, dressing in infantilizing outfits to please male eyes.

#Duggars #fundamentalism #gender #GenderRoles #misogyny #patriarchy
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3. I cannot forget: at the very same time that Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and their son Josh were making political hay by attacking LGBTQ people as a threat to children, Josh was downloading child pornography and had molested his own younger sisters -- and Jim Bob and Michelle knew and hid all of this.

Who's the real threat to children?

#Duggars #fundamentalism #gender #GenderRoles #misogyny #patriarchy #pedophilia
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2. Discovery made the Duggars, hand-picked and gave them iconic status. Why?

Of all the families Discovery could have chosen to hold up as iconic, why the Duggars -- a right-wing Republican white Christian fundamentalist family in the small-town South? These are the people the media constantly chide us for not listening to in the Trump era. But there they are front and center on Discovery for years before Trump….

#Duggars #fundamentalism #gender #GenderRoles #misogyny #patriarchy
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Thoughts on watching the Duggars exposé series "Shiny Happy People"

1. Why there's David Zaslav, now in the news as an éminence grise behind Chris Licht at CNN, as CNN tries rebranding itself as the alternative FOX. There's David Zaslav, in the thick of things as the Duggars vault to fame on the Discovery network, of which he's CEO.

What's that about, the Zaslav link to both of these stories?

#Duggars #fundamentalism #gender #GenderRoles #misogyny #patriarchy
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27715627/

This looks relevant to my interests...😉 #politicalchristianity #Duggars #dominionists #amazonprime https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0B8TR2QV5/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

"This is not hypocrisy. This is the nihilism of a theology of dominance which holds that the sons of God ultimately have a right to rape your daughters. It is the end result of a patriarchal system that gives the man everything and the woman whatever the man wants her to have."

#women #Arkansas #rural #evangelicalism #misogyny #Republicans #Duggars
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