People! <<shaking head>>

[JohnD]

Another thread reminded me about the plight of the Duggars and it angered me. I just edited out other information that was not necessary to get the point across.

 

But I am angry at the way people (all of us) are easily swayed, easily led to follow along and to loathe people we are programmed to loathe at the snap of the fingers of the media etc. And when they blacken someone, we all forget how humble we should be about the things we've done and forgotten about or did not get caught at and forgot about... it makes me angry.

If there be any one here that believes they can cast the first stone at Josh Duggar... perhaps you'd better read Isaiah 64:6, Matthew 7:1-5, and John 8:3-11 again / more closely. And remember this same crowd baiting and falling into lock step with their mass programming is what got the crowds to cry "Crucify!" when Pilate was want to release Jesus. And the ultimate innocence was crucified between two thieves while Barabbas (a murderer) was set free.

Josh Duggar was wrong. He did wrong. But no more than even people who are here or who sit in church next to you each Sunday certainly not more than your neighbors or coworkers who you think highly of. We're all dirty rotten miserable sinners saved only by the Grace of God! When the media is out to show its profiling prejudice against Christians who are at least trying to live Christ-like we ought to be incensed rather than submissive! And they throw out the ugly slander campaign expecting us to fall in rank, we ought rather to step forward and declare to the heavens "I am Spartacus!"

 

Edited October 24, 2015 by JohnD

[JohnD]

Most of the time the politicians, lawyers, and media play people like fiddles.

Edited October 23, 2015 by JohnD

[missmuffet]

Yep,the way of this world 

[Guest shiloh357]

I don't think there was smear campaign at all.    Their problems are self-inflicted.  They should have known that their skeletons would eventually come out of the closet to bite them in them in the backside.

[Guest Judas Machabeus]

You don't get to cry about being bit when you lay with snakes. 

[JohnD]

I don't think there was smear campaign at all.    Their problems are self-inflicted.  They should have known that their skeletons would eventually come out of the closet to bite them in them in the backside.

And you don't?

I do.

Shall we all just crawl into holes and hope the media ignores us or favors us (because they play favorites all the time). And they themselves have the most awful skeletons in their closets in the media.

[JohnD]

You don't get to cry about being bit when you lay with snakes. 

... or publicans and sinners.

[MorningGlory]

Another thread reminded me about the plight of the Duggars and it angered me. I just edited out other information that was not necessary to get the point across.

 

But I am angry at the way people (all of us) are easily swayed, easily led to follow along and to loathe people we are programmed to loathe at the snap of the fingers of the media etc. And when they blacken someone, we all forget how humble we should be about the things we've done and forgotten about or did not get caught at and forgot about... it makes me angry.

If there be any one here that believes they can cast the first stone at Josh Duggar... perhaps you'd better read Isaiah 64:6, Matthew 7:1-5, and John 8:3-11 again / more closely. And remember this same crowd baiting and falling into lock step with their mass programming is what got the crowds to cry "Crucify!" when Pilate was want to release Jesus. And the ultimate innocence was crucified between two thieves while Barabbas (a murderer) was set free.

Josh Duggar was wrong. He did wrong. But no more than even people who are here or who sit in church next to you each Sunday certainly not more than your neighbors or coworkers who you think highly of. We're all dirty rotten miserable sinners saved only by the Grace of God! When the media is out to show its profiling prejudice against Christians who are at least trying to live Christ-like we ought to be incensed rather than submissive! And they throw out the ugly slander campaign expecting us to fall in rank, we ought rather to step forward and declare to the heavens "I am Spartacus!"

 

 

I agree with the fact that we are ALL sinners and have no right to cast stones at others, Duggars or anyone else.  I DON'T  agree that the Duggars have been smeared, slandered or anything else by the media.  What was reported actually happened and the parents covered it up.  Josh Duggar admitted to infidelity.  He's toast but the rest of them are in the entertainment/celebrity columns EVERY DAY.  The older girls are doing specials for TLC.  The girls are even touting a make up how-to video.  The media is hyping them constantly so I don't think they can be used as examples of media slander or anti-Christian bias.   

[Guest shiloh357]

I don't think there was smear campaign at all.    Their problems are self-inflicted.  They should have known that their skeletons would eventually come out of the closet to bite them in them in the backside.

And you don't?

I do.

Shall we all just crawl into holes and hope the media ignores us or favors us (because they play favorites all the time). And they themselves have the most awful skeletons in their closets in the media.

They had serious issues and they put themselves on TV knowing that they would come out, eventually.  if they didn't realize it would come out, they were really naïve.   No one was "smeared."   It's not smearing when it's actually true.

[JohnD]

I don't think there was smear campaign at all.    Their problems are self-inflicted.  They should have known that their skeletons would eventually come out of the closet to bite them in them in the backside.

And you don't?

I do.

Shall we all just crawl into holes and hope the media ignores us or favors us (because they play favorites all the time). And they themselves have the most awful skeletons in their closets in the media.

They had serious issues and they put themselves on TV knowing that they would come out, eventually.  if they didn't realize it would come out, they were really naïve.   No one was "smeared."   It's not smearing when it's actually true.

Then Jesus got it wrong in John 8:3-11?

And the Pharisees had it right. She was caught in adultery. It was their duty to expose her. After all it was true. No smear job...