Even the most gullible will turn on them. Thankfully.

The Duggars are not that bright

They had the 'education' they needed.

They did what all good religious freaks do....they conned a bunch of other, probably poorer, religious nuts out of their money.

it is possible they probably mostly used the money and it was mostly vacation . and they may have been rejected but not because of lack of the usual education as we think of it.

And she'd need a semester of religion courses at an accredited school even to tag along as a missionary spouse.

he married. but i'm guessing this was something different.

i do think they were mostly looking for free money from the fans who send them all the gifts for their wedding and baby shower and other things.

sure it's in accounting. He actually held an accounting job at Wal Mart until recently, giving it up to supposedly do missionary work. His Duggar wife, Jill, has some limited midwife training, but, like all of her siblings, has no formal education beyond whatever she learned at the kitchen table using books sanctioned by the cult the family belongs to. Neither has any theological training that would be required of a missionary. Pictures they post of themselves on mission trips look like tourist photos. There is no evidence that they are doing anything useful -- building homes, teaching, assisting with health care, etc. TLC has announced plans to feature these grifters in a series of specials focusing on Jill and another daughter Jessa, who is pregnant and whose husband has no job other than doing odd jobs for his father-in-law. Only on American "reality" tv would anyone give these losers a forum.

...where the donation money, taken by the “Dillard Family Ministries” went. As a tax-exempt religious organization, they probably won’t ever have to."

We knew exactly what these people were all about a Looong time ago.

that they could lose their tax exempt status, which would be cool.

push the girls to marry off as soon as they are out of high school.

they tend to generously let the girls stay at home to raise the younger kids until they are in their mid-20s. The oldest girl is unmarried at 25 at the other two married last yearish at 24 and 22. The only one they rushed to marry off with the oldest son because obviously he has some issues with sex.

Some of the girls have midwifery training but no formal education. I remember one episode where they showed a letter written by one of the boys who was about 11 at the time and if you'd shown me the letter with no context I would have guessed it was written by a 5 or 6 year old. Huge loopy letters, couldn't stay in the lines, only about twenty words in the whole letter. I'd bet most of the kids are semi-literate and certainly don't have the math, science, history, critical thinking or language skills to be accepted to an accredited university.

happen when they have to grow up without fame and money. And the mother, is she going to continue to school them?

Plus, statistically as far as the boys go there will be at least one gay one. I feel bad for that boy. And God help the girl who grows up to like girls.

What kind of lives these people live.

When did Josh's problems begin coming to the surface? Could this scam have been a way of supplementing what income they had left before the advertisers and cancellation of the TV series happened?

They are unabashedly cons from the get-go. Those trips to El Salvador were probably to carry down cash deposits. I wouldn't trust these people any further than I could spit. They are despicable. I hope those who contributed could afford it and no elderly were convinced to squander their hard-earned savings on such trash.

I just like looking at the phrase above. It keeps making me laugh.

And this was at the time when they were making a very conscious effort to purge everyone who wasn't whack-job crazy. This dovetailed nicely with me being the age where I no longer wanted anything to do with church ever again, but beside the point. Their purge was successful. All Southern Baptist leadership, preachers, etc...they're all quite off the deep end these days. So the Duggar rejection just has me laughing--almost belly laughing.

Me too!

and the misses was holding her legs together prior to the last birth - the father was smarmy

the children were spooking and weird

the girls were unable to speak - kinda like abused weirdness and the boys were .... just pervy weird

Empty smiles are their default look. That may be one of the reasons you found them weird.

The Grifters Edition

The Duggar Family vs. The Palin Family

Maybe Bristol can bring her two out-of-wedlock kids as a show of republican family values and abstinence.

Welcome to DU!

American public ever.

all those kids are nothing more than crooks.

perhaps the education does not include this step.

not sure who this boot camp is connected to.
golly i had not thought about those fundies for some time


and was happy about that

This sentence is not only hilarious it's a scientific absurdity.

I'm so sick of the Duggars. And they can take the Kardashions with them.

Brainwashed from birth, "blanket trained" into total submission, regimented, educated only enough to read the bible (but discouraged from reading all of it), denied the kind of parental help that would have allowed them to blossom, and expected to follow their parents in lockstep into a life of idiocy and over fertility, their own children suffering the same fate.

Let's hope being rejected as missionaries was a wakeup call, that it takes something besides praising Jebus to convert the heathen masses (who are already Catholic, thanks very much) and that they've been cheated out of all of it.