Man who grew up in Bill Gothard’s religious CULT made famous by the Duggars lifts lid on the harrowing ‘fear tactics’ used to isolate members
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A man who grew up in the religious cult made famous by reality TV’s Duggar family has lifted the lid on his harrowing upbringing – marred by ‘fear tactics’ prescribed by the organization to control interpersonal dynamics at the most intimate familial levels.
Chad Harris, 38, an outspoken critic of the Institute of Basic Life Principles, went on the YouTube show Cults to Consciousness to speak about his experiences after his family joined the group when he was just seven years old.
He now runs the anti-IBLP TikTok @ArchRadish in which he calls out the fundamentalist Christian group for being a ‘blatant’ ‘cult in plain sight.’
Speaking to host Shelise Ann Sola, Chad explained he was born in England to two American missionaries – the fourth born after an older brother and two sisters.
His parents, who were stationed as missionaries in the Netherlands and Belgium in the late 1970s to early 1980s, homeschooled him from birth.
His older siblings spent some time going to school in the United States, but their parents didn’t approve of the ‘Dutch school system’ and relocated to Belgium where homeschooling was ‘technically’ accepted.
As his mom struggled to homeschool her four kids – with the eldest 10 years older than Chad – she sought out advice from a Christian OB/GYN in hopes of finding a non-surgical way to prevent any further pregnancies.
With that, it was always made clear to Chad he’d been an ‘accident, and they never really let my forget that,’ he explained.
Regardless, rather than helping her prevent further pregnancies medically, the male doctor advised Chad’s mother to ‘leave it to God.’
And apparently, the doctor successfully persuaded her to do just that – as Chad’s parents went on to have two more children after him.
The doctor also introduced Chad’s mom to the fundamentalist Christian concept of the ‘quiverful.’
Key to the IBPM, the general concept is that ‘children are a quiverful of arrows that you shoot out into the world, based on a passage in Psalms,’ explained Chad.
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