“And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”
– Matthew 19:24
Are the Duggars money grubbing? According to CelebrityNetWorth.com, the family as a whole is worth $3.5 million. But it looks like the site’s records end in 2014, well before Josh Duggar’s incestuous pedophilia scandal, and the big Ashley Madison reveal.
So at least one Dugger is into kids, fucking his siblings, and cheating on his wife. That’s all on paper. Depending on how you read the bible, the incest could be okay from a Christian point of view. So could the pedophilia. Straight up cheating on your wife without officially making the mistress a second wife is probably uncool. Of all the things the bible is pretty vague about, adultery is really clearly not okay.
Although there could be an argument made that biblical adultery has everything to do with husbands and fathers and nothing to do with wives or mothers, so if you cheated on your wife with an unmarried woman who’s dad is dead, there’s really no victim at that point. But I’m not a Bible scholar.
Certainty I’m not good enough at the Bible to figure out why it’s perfectly fine to shave your beard, wear polyblends, eat shrimp, fuck your baby sisters, and cheat on your wife, but gay marriage is still off the table.
But back to the initial question. Are the Duggars money grubbing? You could say the fact that they decided to sell out their family and their commitment to a simple Christian life in exchange for a TV show is money grubbing, but I’d be more into calling it fame-whoring. Vanity, even.
Can a family that puts themselves on TV and in the media at every possible opportunity be humble, even if they are being pretty great Christians, what with the pedophilia and all? Personally, I don’t think so.
I especially don’t think it’s very humble to purport to know the mind of God, which is what any person does when they use their religious piety as an excuse to perpetuate hatred and discriminate against others.
It’s also pretty obviously not humble to take the law into your own hands. For example, to discover that a crime has been committed, decide not to report it, and then use personal connections and political influence to finagle local law enforcement into looking the other way on multiple counts of molestation that you just forgot to mention… for nine fucking months. Which, by the way, is how the kid-touching was handled, if you didn’t know.
So no, I don’t think the Duggars are money grubbing whores. Neither do I think they’re humble Christians. But they are definitely corrupt, dysfunctional liars who are either into kid fucking, or into protecting kid fuckers. Which I find to be really distasteful. No matter what the Bible says.