I was asked recently to share some of my thoughts on the Josh Duggar scandal. This is not intended to start an argument or become a debate. Also, this is my Facebook page so if I don’t like what you have to say I can and will censor you, so keeps it clean and civil. Also if you comment without reading what I have to say I will automatically delete your comment, to quote the ever so popular meme “ain’t nobody got time for that”. Allow me to begin by saying that Josh Duggar’s actions are deviant and disgusting. I in no way support his actions and openly condemn what he has done. The only thing he has done right has been open and honest about his massive screw ups. Which is more than most people in the public eye can say. But there are a few things I would like to point out. The first thing I think that needs to be clarified is that Josh does not represent Christianity as a whole. I know that he is a public figure that has spoken out for the sake of Christ, but his actions do not represent the rest of Christianity, if it did, we wouldn’t be talking about it. So do not assume to lump all believers in together with Josh. Secondly, while what Josh did was wrong, and shameful, why are we so quick to throw stones? In Matthew 7:5, Jesus tells us to “remove the log from our own eye, before pointing out a splinter in our neighbors.” And again in John 8:7 “let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” We are so quick to point out the sin of someone else, why? Because for a moment everyone is focused on someone else, and maybe for a moment no one will notice mine. The truth is we are all carrying around a great deal of guilt and shame for the things that we have done, and when someone else screws up we quickly point fingers hoping that nobody will notice our own shame, if even for only a moment. Be careful about pointing fingers, there are always 3 more pointing back at you. Also there has been this strange article floating around that says that Anna, Josh’s wife, is uneducated because she is homeschooled, and therefore she is destitute to “the system” that she has placed herself in. I read that article and thought… wow… I am not sure that this author has done very much research on homeschooling. Most homeschool students out perform their peers in every category. Studies overwhelmingly show that homeschooling is superior to our public education system. Doubt me? Go to Google, and type in “home schooling vs. public education”. See what comes up. I will even include a graph below. For the record, I was NOT homeschooled, but at least where I grew up it was pretty common knowledge that homeschool kids were further ahead in their schooling than public education kids, and the stats back that up. Finally, I believe that Josh can be redeemed from this mess, and that God can still use him. If you look throughout the Bible, we see that the people that God uses are often the people that the world would call screw-ups. Abraham, Moses, King David, the twelve disciples. All of them were people just like us, they had their failures and made mistakes, just like all of us, and God used them to do mighty things. That’s the thing about Jesus, He takes our screw-ups and makes them His victories. My prayers are that Josh would repent, and that we would look back on this and see Jesus’s victory. In closing: Josh bad, Jesus awesome.