Jim Duggar Research Paper

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My father Jim Duggar was by my side (Josh Duggar) in May, when reports surfaced that I molested five underage girls as a teen. But after my second sex scandal broke two weeks ago, my father called me a hypocrite. Michael takes issue with my confession that I used Ashley Madison’s website to cheat on my wife Anna, and was addicted to porn while preaching conservative values on 19 Kids and Counting and as a lobbyist. "It distresses me to say that Josh Duggar's greatest sin is a by product of the sum total of his secretly sinful lifestyle. That is, that by his hypocrisy, he blasphemed the name of God. He claimed to be a Christian, but by his deeds he has suggested otherwise. With the name of God on his lips he lived a covert and extensive lifestyle of evil," Seewald wrote. "While proudly saying things like, 'Our family is like the epitome of conservative values,' he was looking at porn and soliciting affairs. He took a job at the Family Research Council that exists to promote the traditional family, all the while undermining his own family by violating his marriage covenant. …show more content…
The thing that is so hurtful is that I was a loud voice endorsing Christian ethics and has been shown to be a fraud. I am profoundly grieved that I attained such a platform only to bring shame on God's holy name and the Christian faith. After my scandal when I was a teenager, I publicly stated that I appeared to be a changed man, was walking above reproach, and living out the faith that he professed. I stood in solidarity, encouraging him to use the scandal to build humility and grace. Sadly, he had deceived us all. The name of God has been blasphemed and God is jealous for his

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