Documentary: Shiny Happy People (The Duggars)

[TheNewGirl 1,336]

I never really watched the Duggars (19 Kids and Counting) on TLC, but seems like they were the jumping off point for TLC to go from The Learning Channel to The Lurking Channel where they started reality TV.  John and Kate Plus 8, the Kardashians (maybe, can't remember if they started there, etc). 

But this show really digs into their religions fundamentalist beliefs, and it really is a grooming process for all kinds of abuse; sexual, emotional, physical, mental...I mean, it's horrible. 

How these producers didn't see this kind of stuff while they were filming them over the years, because they only had like 14 or 15 kids when they started, I don't know. Or how they didn't know that the oldest boy wasn't molesting his sisters during the whole thing...

They truly did ruin these kids, all 19 of them and it's really sad. Not only them but so many that believe in this church! 

Anyways, no purpose to the thread really, just watching it and kind of baffled that organizations like this exist, but religious freedom y'all! 'Murica! 

[TheNewGirl 1,336]

Adding, when I say abuse...they follow books that allow mothers to inflict abuse on their infants. They call it "blanket training." You place an object just out of reach of an infant, 6 months old/old enough to crawl. The infant crawls off of the blanket towards the object and the mother will hit the infant, tell them no. This is supposed to "remove" the infants wanting to go after something they aren't supposed to have. 

Women are raped consistently and at the mercy of their husbands to keep having babies. 

All of this hidden from the TLC producers, how the Duggars hid this...I have NO idea. 

[Ron_Artest 1,011]

Josh Duggar should be put down.  Supposedly he was into some of the most vile shite imaginable,

The whole church should be burned to the ground.

[TheNewGirl 1,336]

9 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

Josh Duggar should be put down.  Supposedly he was into some of the most vile shite imaginable,

The whole church should be burned to the ground.

Yes, and the cop that initially arrested him and talked to him about what happened was a friend of Jim Duggar, basically said, "Josh, don't do it again If you do it again, I'll have to really let you have it." The cop is now serving something like 50 years in prison for child pron. 

Sick. 

I'd like to say that all fundamentalist religions should be banned, but then I'd be against the first amendment, but I've yet to hear ANYTHING good about any fundamentalist religion I've read or heard about. This one the Mormon one, any of them. They are all cults that believe in abusing children and women. 

[Herbivore 1,113]

1 hour ago, TheNewGirl said:

Yes, and the cop that initially arrested him and talked to him about what happened was a friend of Jim Duggar, basically said, "Josh, don't do it again If you do it again, I'll have to really let you have it." The cop is now serving something like 50 years in prison for child pron. 

Sick. 

I'd like to say that all fundamentalist religions should be banned, but then I'd be against the first amendment, but I've yet to hear ANYTHING good about any fundamentalist religion I've read or heard about. This one the Mormon one, any of them. They are all cults that believe in abusing children and women. 

to your last sentence..they all are, not just fundies

[TheNewGirl 1,336]

4 hours ago, Herbivore said:

to your last sentence..they all are, not just fundies

Well we certainly can't ban them all.