A few weeks ago, Jinger Duggar released her controversial memoir, really free,
Among fans, this has stirred discourse as some feel Jinger has merely traded one creed for another.
But Ginger’s book and what she writes about her toxic upbringing shocks her family as well.
Apparently, Jim Bob and Michelle feel embarrassed – as they should be – about what the book has to say. And they’re keeping Ginger’s own siblings from reading it. Some of them, anyway.
Although Jinger Duggar Vuolo is still a conservative evangelical Christian, many of her beliefs have evolved since her upbringing in a fundamentalist sect.
This goes beyond Ginger’s rebellious outfits. Marrying Jeremy and moving to Los Angeles confirmed her parents’ worst fears: She exposed herself to new ideas and new people, and thus grew as a person.
This kind of open-mindedness and personal agency is anathema to his family, his church, and the IBLP cult.
In really freeGinger works to try and separate her Christian faith and her conservative beliefs from her authoritarian upbringing.
She grew up in a toxic, abusive cult. And she grew up on reality television.
Even without the cult’s most notorious sexual predators – from her eldest brother to the cult’s founder – things were less than ideal. And Ginger is clearly still unpacking all that in her mind.
Ginger has stepped away from the deadly teachings of the Institute in Basic Life Principles.
Disgraced sexual predator Bill Gotthard envisioned these perverse, sexist restrictions on people’s daily lives. And Jim Bob and Michelle forced their children to live in this restrictive environment.
Ginger has seen enough of the world to look back on her experiences and know that it was both “wrong” and hurtful.
Now, radaronline Reports say Jinger’s parents feel “embarrassed” by the various revelations really free,
Additionally, sources say that Jim Bob and Michelle are working to protect their young children from Ginger’s book and its contents.
After all, it is their policy for any material that challenges or diverges from the abominable teachings of the IBLP cult.
The cult teaches that women are clearly inferior to men, yet they have almost supernatural powers to control them.
Females must submit to males without IBLP. As wives, there is no concept of “consent”, but only of being available at all times to the husband’s sexual desires. Obviously, this is grounds for abuse.
Speaking of desire, within this sinister ideology women also take the blame for the thoughts, feelings and actions of men. So women should dress modestly to avoid being “cheated” by men. it is more or less Rape Forgiveness 101,
It’s no surprise to hear that Jim Bob and Michelle don’t want their young children to read Ginger’s book, especially the family. That’s why they don’t allow them to go to school or make normal friends.
They grow up with the IBLP because that is the only world they know. Everything else is foreign, intimidating, and somehow impure or impure.
Ginger was able to learn better as she got older. But not everyone will get the chance to move out of Arkansas. For girls, it would depend on the whims of their future “lord husbands”. And who approves the soldiers to marry? Jim Bob.