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Jinger Duggar Vuolo shared she grew up “crippled with anxiety” from her family’s spiritual beliefs. Here’s what she said astir the “cult-like tendencies” she present describes.
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Jinger Duggar Vuolo is getting candid astir her faith.
The Counting On prima precocious reflected connected increasing up successful a household devoted to the Institute successful Basic Life Principles, a arguable Christian enactment founded by Minister Bill Gothard, sharing however she present views the practices she was erstwhile dedicated to.
"[Gothard's] teachings were truthful harmful, and I'm seeing much of the effects of that successful the lives of my friends and radical who grew up successful that assemblage with me," Jinger told People successful an interrogation published Jan. 18. "There are a batch of cult-like tendencies."
The 29-year-old, whose household changeable to fame connected the TLC amusement 19 Kids and Counting, explained that increasing up, she was taught to bash definite things successful obedience to God, specified arsenic lone wearing skirts and dresses alternatively of pants. But often, she explained rules connected what to bash and what not to bash weren't clear.
"[Gothard's] teachings successful a nutshell are based connected fearfulness and superstition and permission you successful a spot wherever you consciousness like, 'I don't cognize what God expects of me,'" she said. "The fearfulness kept maine crippled with anxiety. I was terrified of the extracurricular world."
That uncertainty is thing Jinger remembers erstwhile she thinks backmost connected a clip erstwhile she and her household went to play broomball. "I thought I could beryllium killed successful a car mishap connected the way," she told the outlet, "because I didn't cognize if God wanted maine to enactment location and work my Bible instead."
Per the outlet, Jinger started to question her content strategy successful 2017. Now, she is inactive a Christian with a antithetic attack to surviving retired her religion who is afloat separated from IBLP.
E! News reached retired to Bill Gothard and the Institute successful Basic Life Principles for comment, and has not heard back. E News besides reached retired to Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, and they declined to comment.
Gothard resigned from the IBLP committee of directors in 2014 amid allegations against him that assertion helium molested and sexually harassed women successful the organization, per NBC News. At the time, Gothard addressed the allegations successful a since-deleted connection connected his website: "My actions of holding of hands, hugs, and touching of feet oregon hairsbreadth with young ladies crossed the boundaries of discretion and were wrong."
According to NBC News, IBLP launched an interior investigation, which ruled that Gothard "had acted successful an inappropriate manner" and would nary longer beryllium a portion of the organization. Despite this, IBLP noted they recovered nary transgression enactment successful his actions.
Two years ago, Jinger shared astir her travel to leaving IBLP behind. In her 2021 book The Hope We Hold: Finding Peace successful the Promises of God, co-written with hubby Jeremy Vuolo, Jinger details the commencement of her travel to breaking distant from IBLP.
"I wanted to spot if the convictions I'd ever held were true," she wrote. "I wanted to analyse wherefore I believed what I believed, and if those beliefs were supported by the Scripture. Now, arsenic I reexamined and compared them to scripture, my convictions were changing."
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