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I Was Raised in a Cult. Like the Duggar Family, We Had Dark Secrets

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Many are stunned after watching Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, a docuseries about the famously growing Duggar family, on Amazon Prime. How could this have happened? The Duggars looked like such good people! But for those of us who grew…[Continue Reading...]

Jill Duggar defies family after she lets son Samuel, 5, partake in activity Jim Bob & Michelle would ‘never’ allow

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JILL Duggar has once again defied her dad Jim Bob's strict rules by allowing her son Samuel to partake in a forbidden activity. The Counting On star has continuously taken measures to separate herself from her fundamentalist parents with her…[Continue Reading...]

Why Americans shouldn’t dismiss Shiny Happy People’s warning of a Christian-controlled nation

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There is a reason it’s trending right now and you’re seeing it in your feeds and hearing about in conversations. Not only did it provide the history behind the Duggar family’s rise to fame that allowed them to promote their…[Continue Reading...]

As ‘Shiny Happy People’ Achieves Prime Video’s Biggest Docuseries Debut Ever, Amazon TV Chief Vernon Sanders Talks Strategy (EXCLUSIVE)

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“Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets” has had the biggest debut of any documentary series ever produced by Amazon Studios, Variety has learned. The limited series investigates controversies surrounding the Duggar family, best known for TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,”…[Continue Reading...]

Shiny Happy People is a great reminder of why cult documentaries should exist

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I grew up adjacent to the fundamentalist Christian cult that Shiny Happy People, the four-part docuseries ostensibly about the reality TV-famous Duggar family, was really about. The Institute for Basic Life Principles (IBLP), founded and led by a man named…[Continue Reading...]

Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets Cast Guide

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Contrary to the title, the new documentary Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets isn't all about the famous Duggar family, and other important voices lend their story, opinions, and feelings about the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP). Bill Gothard…[Continue Reading...]

The Duggar Family’s Religion: All About the Controversial Church IBLP

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The Duggar family gave the world a look into their strict Christian household throughout 10 seasons of the TLC show 19 Kids and Counting. The series, which aired from 2008 to 2015, highlighted many of the family’s ultra-conservative ways —…[Continue Reading...]

The Cult Next Door Is an Ideal Follow-Up to Shiny Happy People

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Prime Video's new Duggar docuseries, Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, is more than just a retelling of the family's rise to fame and their many scandals — it's a damning indictment of the Christian fundamentalist organization that birthed them,…[Continue Reading...]

From ‘cult’ leader to disgraced outcast: FEMAIL reveals what happened to the man behind the Duggars’ sinister religion – who ‘turned every father into a cult leader’, told parents to beat their kids – then found himself shunned over sexual assault scandal

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When the Duggars were shot to fame thanks to their TLC reality show, they portrayed a picture perfect and wholesome family - which they insisted was thanks to their participation in the fundamentalist religious group known as The Institute in Basic Life…[Continue Reading...]

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