Many families are in shock. And many of those families are home to abusers.
But very few people have as notorious a creep as Josh Duggar. This is not a jealous situation.
Josh’s crimes are enough to bring tears to Jinger Duggar’s eyes.
In her memoir, Ginger discusses another aspect of Josh’s crimes. One that weighs heavily on his mind, even though it might not be anyone else’s first thought.
really free A memoir has a suggestive title. Especially for someone who broke away from a fundamentalist cult.
Although critics say that Ginger has traded one extreme iteration of Christianity for another, she clearly sees IBLP for what it was.
And her book makes it abundantly clear why she looks up to her eldest brother, infamous criminal Josh Duggar. He Is.
In December of 2021, a court of his peers found Josh Duggar guilty of CSAM—receiving and possessing child sexual abuse material.
He used peer-to-peer software to download pictures and videos of young girls being ruined. And he did it for his sick sexual gratification.
Josh’s wife, Anna, had been using a special Christian spyware monitoring program to monitor him. But Josh found the solution on his office computer.
However, he was so focused on avoiding the identity of Anna that he it seems Forgot to hide his activities from the real authorities.
Luckily, this meant that investigators were able to apprehend him.
Despite Josh’s own history of being a victim of younger girls in the past, including his own sisters – he tried to pin the blame on an employee. Luckily, no one (except maybe Anna) bought it.
This includes Ginger, who clearly doesn’t believe that President Biden (or Trump, or the literal actual devil) framed Josh.
In really freeShe confirms that she hasn’t spoken to Josh in almost two years.
and she characterizes the “backlash” against Josh as “rightfully severe”.
For Ginger, it’s about more than just victims—little children who will never be able to have a normal life because of what the men did to them. Men who register their brashness for men like Josh.
“even if he [weren’t] A public figure, he would still be in prison for his actions, ”she wrote in her book.
“But because millions of people know who Josh is, his sin defames Christ,” Ginger laments.
“Those who oppose Christianity may point to passion,” Ginger worries.
She writes that a critic might cite Josh as “evidence that anyone who claims to walk with Jesus is a fake.”
Ginger is not wrong here. We’ll note that of course, no one person represents All members of a faith. Relatedly, one can oppose the theology or social influence of a religion without condemning the adherents of that religion.
Worrying for Ginger Can Seem Insensitive image Christianity is when there are real, human victims.
That said… there are probably some nuances here. We can understand that this is his concern, because he is a Christian. And she clearly sympathizes with the victims.
Perhaps Ginger can take comfort in the knowledge that Christianity is the majority religion, and thus people are less likely to blame Christianity and Josh’s actions on all Christians. People of minority religions have no such luxury.