Atheism & the Duggars

[Rev. Rye]

Josh installed software on his work computer that would email his wife if he visited a porn site.  Then, he installed a partition on the drive that ran linux and a torrent client.  Testimony for the prosecution left little room for doubt.

Yeah, quite likely, but, as the computer was not secured, anyone with physical access to the box could have created a dual boot OS. With root access and knowledge of Linux, virtually anything is possible after that.

I would not convict if I was in the jury, at least from what I have read in the news.

The computer wasn't secured, but the Linux partition could only be accessed by physically restarting the computer, hitting F9 as it reboots, and typing in the password intel1988. You would need to physically be there to pull it off.

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Or perhaps they know after years of experience with the little pervert living under their roof that he's well and truly buggered and this is as close to a non-admission as they could come.

If the Duggars really care about what is true, then they ought to abandon their religion.

Hell, besides the fact that their religion peddles bullshit, if they cared about protecting, well, anyone besides Josh, they would have abandoned it. Before shit got real and he was actually arrested, it was theoretically possible that maybe Josh wasn't actually a pedo, that he was just a horny teen who was given zero legitimate sexual outlets and five sisters walking around the house every day. In this least damning case scenario, the toxic religion he was raised in would have contributed to a scenario where he couldn't just do shit like masturbate, look at normal porn, or even explore sexuality with a girl closer to his own age. And given that this is apparently an extremely common thing in their particular cult, common enough that they created monstrosities like this, it wasn't a possibility I could have easily dismissed.