#iblp — Public Fediverse posts

30+ yrs ago, my folks attended an IBLP conference & bought the "Character Sketches" book set for me.

I liked the pictures & animal stories. I had no idea they were IBLP until I saw the Duggar special.

Straight into the recycle bin!

#IBLP

A Documentary I Liked: https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-a-documentary-i-liked/ #WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge #Documentary #Dinosaurs #Duggar #IBLP #Cretaceous #ShinyHappyPeople #Prehistory #PrehistoricPlanet

#ReligiousTrauma #gothard #iblp #exfundy #exchristian This is a far more accurate representation of #patriarchy #nonsense

David French on Bill Gothard's Institute for Basic Life Principles, central to the Duggar family story now on display in "Shiny Happy People":

"Gothard’s teaching didn’t reach just the millions of Christians he claims have attended his seminars."

#Duggars #BillGothard #IBLP #evangelicals #authoritarianism #patriarchy #misogyny
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/opinion/shiny-happy-people.html

I finished the last instalment of the Bill Gothard and Duggar family documentary last night. It was so good.

What science, nature, history, or sociology documentaries have you all been watching lately?

I have the urge the watch more of this sort of stuff, especially if Toronto has more rainstorms like they’re predicting.

#ShinyHappyPeople #BillGothard #IBLP #Duggar #Documentary #Today #Toronto

Recent chat with Seth Andrews (The Thinking Atheist) about the #iblp #cult, and #Duggar finally expose #shinyhappypeople My interview is the third and last. https://www.spreaker.com/episode/54165226

https://krdo.com/news/2023/06/08/a-new-documentary-series-on-the-duggar-family-highlights-a-controversial-religious-group-ex-members-share-their-stories/ #ReligiousTrauma #Duggars #IBLP

So, in context of having seen the #ShinyHappyPeople docuseries about Christian Nationalist group #IBLP, connecting that to Montana banning TikTok (a source of a lot of recovery communities and criticism of toxic Christianity, and the seed for that documentary), and Elon’s destruction of Twitter, then I’m looking over at happening to Reddit, which presently hosts the largest exmormon community online, (275,000 members, 1100 online right now), and these dots are starting to form a picture.

I’m not sure the Reddit thing is about money or IPO. It seems like part of a coordinated effort across the Internet to shut down anti-authoritarian movements.

Is anybody else talking about this?

#exmo #exmormon #exvangelical #antifa #antiauthoritarian

Have you seen the #shinyhappypeople docuseries exposing the #Duggars & the #IBLP #Gothard #cult? It is important because it exposes #conservative #evangelical #christianity in the #USA and how long plans have been in motion to basically take over all levels of government - but especially the #scotus . Here’s my B4 & after fundie, Gothardesque pic. #iGotOut

The #ShinyHappyPeople docuseries on Prime is a really good primer on #ChristianNationalism in general, which spans beyond Bill Gothard. I highly recommend it if you can stomach the content. It really helps make clear the scope of this thing that’s happening to America right now. It makes all this *motions around* make so much more sense. And makes it a lot more terrifying.

#ChristoFascism #IBLP #exmo #exmormon #exvangelical

At the end of the docuseries, there’s a montage of all the ex- #IBLP TikTokers and that hit me really hard. Given that there’s a similar thriving TikTok community for #exmormons, and I was a part of it for a few months in 2021 making videos. Emotions.

There were also thriving #exvangelical and deconstructing Christianity communities there with a lot of cross pollination.

(And now I know EXACTLY why Montana is trying to ban Tiktok.)

#ShinyHappyPeople #exmo #exmormon

The beneficiaries of this system are those higher on the hierarchical ladder who have examined these ideals and do not believe the rules apply to them. They believe they are special. For them, easy pleasure and even pleasure at the expense of others is morally acceptable, even desirable. They need to prevent those they control from having access to pleasure and relief from trauma symptoms as a means of control. And they are in positions to influence culture. This is what drives #AbuseCulture. #IBLP #ShinyHappyPeople

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Live for Everyone! We read #BecomingFreeIndeed so y'all can get the TL;DR #billgothard #iblp #shinyhappypeople https://www.patreon.com/posts/s5e12-youre-not-83523380