When people claim moral authority from a position of religious faith, run.

[AtheistCrusader]

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Just run. Every last damn one of them is a liar, and probably doing what they rail against, or worse.

http://gawker.com/family-values-activist-josh-duggar-had-a-paid-ashley-ma-1725132091

The only thing I can figure, they don't believe either. They must not. If you REALLY believe, could you do something like this with your imaginary friend watching? I doubt it. They do it because they DON'T believe. They just want to use religion as a club to beat others into submission. They don't believe, themselves.


Edit: LOL hey guys, porn did it.

Statement from Josh Duggar:

I have been the biggest hypocrite ever. While espousing faith and family values, I have secretly over the last several years been viewing pornography on the internet and this became a secret addiction and I became unfaithful to my wife.

I am so ashamed of the double life that I have been living and am grieved for the hurt, pain and disgrace my sin has caused my wife and family, and most of all Jesus and all those who profess faith in Him.

I brought hurt and a reproach to my family, close friends and the fans of our show with my actions that happened when I was 14-15 years old, and now I have re-broken their trust.

The last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country, I was hiding my own personal failings.

As I am learning the hard way, we have the freedom to choose to our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. I deeply regret all hurt I have caused so many by being such a bad example.

I humbly ask for your forgiveness. Please pray for my precious wife Anna and our family during this time.

Josh Duggar

[Jester Messiah]

1. This reminds me of one of those meme-captioned photos I recently saw.

Cool: I can't do that because of my religion.
Not Cool: YOU can't do that because of my religion.

Found it.
http://whisper.sh/w/Mjc2NTg1MTkz

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Nice, yep.

That's it in a nutshell.

[trotsky]

2. I disagree with that sentiment.

It implies that only non-believers are capable of "misusing" religion. I contend there are plenty of people who are true believers who are capable of bad things too.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. I cannot tolerate the level of cognitive dissonance required to make that happen.

It would break my mind.

[trotsky]

6. Oh, religion is ALL ABOUT cognitive dissonance.

When rejecting evidence in favor of faith is seen as a virtue, anything can happen. (And usually does!)

[AtheistCrusader]

12. Looks like he's taking the 'blame it on porn' gambit.

http://www.duggarfamily.com/michelles-blog

[Warren Stupidity]

17. And is bolstered by endless deflection and diversion from the Defenders of the Faith.

[DetlefK]

5. They are allowed to cheat on God, because they are God's favorites.

They figure they are so far up high in the friendship-with-God hierarchy that they can afford to violate his rules. Would God be mad? Nah! They are best buddies! He will understand!


Remember how Jesus told us to donate all our belongings and live in poverty? For rich people don't go to heaven?
You can actually bypass that command if you pray really, really hard in public and if you are really, really mean to people who violate other biblical stuff.

[PassingFair]

7. At least they have standards to be hypocrital about.

-- Ann Coulter

[Lordquinton]

8. It's fine, god has already forgiven him

However there are people out there that will see this as worse than his previous scandal.

[AtheistCrusader]

9. Well, it's not worse or even comparable in that sense. But it does shatter the hypocrisy meter.

[Lordquinton]

10. It's not even a crime

But there are folks who see it as worse than his previous crimes. I don't think the hypocracy meter works after his buolding a career pushing the idea that homosexuality leads to pedophilia.

[AtheistCrusader]

11. What makes this one funny for me

is the Duggar family elders did an interview about a week ago, expressing disappointment and shock at how the public reacted, and that they weren't forgiven or allowed back on TLC (Cash Cow).

So... this is amusing.

If it were a crime, it wouldn't be funny. (They may even have an open marriage, who knows)

[Lordquinton]

13. We may never find out what the women are thinking

In this whole debacle. They don't care, to them he men own the women, it's how the bible spell it out, e new testament upholds it (bits like women not teaching etc.) I'd check to see if he frequented any other sites, maybe subway?

[AtheistCrusader]

15. I certainly hope not.

I can't wait to see what else turns up in this data breach.
Couldn't happen to a nicer buncha people.

[Lordquinton]

16. Who doxxes the doxxers?

I remember something about this being a warning to the usual mra crowd that goes around doing this stuff to women they are casually ruffled by.

[AtheistCrusader]

20. Yeah, premera went and put my medical records on the internet for me so

I gave up being outraged about the privacy aspect a long time ago..

[rug]

14. "Every last damn one of them is a liar"

Have you done a survey or is this simply your own biased opinion?

[Warren Stupidity]

18. The Duggars are awful people, their religion is horrible, but nobody deserves to

have their non-criminal private lives dumped into the public sphere like this.

If Josh Duggar wants to fuck around, that is a matter between him and his sexual partners.

[AtheistCrusader]

19. On the other hand...

he lobbies for legal restrictions on other loving couples based upon his supposed morality...

Granted, I would be opposing his bullshit just as much even if he was pure as the driven snow.
Still. Sunlight. Disinfectant.

He'll never hurt people with his lobbying again.

[Starboard Tack]

21. How's that vacation working out?

Good to know that "Every last damn one of them is a liar". Those damned absolutist fundamentalist crusader types. Fuck'em all I say. How dare they say something that does not ring true to those with only honest ears and pure hearts?

[AtheistCrusader]

22. Glad I can be here to help.