Ben Seewald’s Father Speaks out Against Josh Duggar, Says he “blasphemed the name of God”

By Cheri Cheng - 01 Sep '15 13:50PM
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Josh Duggar continues to be criticized by his family's in-laws after news of his cheating scandal surfaced.

Michael Seewald, the father-in-law to Josh's younger sister, Jessa, has spoken out against Josh, 27. In a blog post titled "Grief, Shame, and taking the Lord's Name in Vain," Seewald scrutinizes Josh's latest actions.

"It distresses me to say that Josh Duggar's greatest sin is a byproduct of the sum total of his secretly sinful lifestyle. That is, that by his hypocrisy, he blasphemed the name of God," Seewald wrote. "He claimed to be a Christian, but by his deeds he has suggested otherwise. With the name of God on his lips he lived a covert and extensive lifestyle of evil."

He continued. "To the person reading this, I want to caution you. Josh was a pretender. True Christians fail often, but their lives are truly being conformed to the image of Christ. Do not look at Josh and justify your own sins by dismissing the reality of genuine faith and a holy God."

Josh's adultery was revealed during the Ashley Madison data dump. After the hackers, who stole the information from the website that encourages cheating, released the data, Josh was linked to having two accounts. He released a statement and admitted to cheating on his wife. Shortly after, Josh checked himself into a rehab facility.

"I have been the biggest hypocrite ever. While espousing faith and family values, I have been unfaithful to my wife," he said.

Josh was the subject of a larger scandal earlier this year when In Touch magazine published a police report revealing that Josh had sexually groped five minor girls when he was a teenager. Two of the victims were his sisters, Jessa and Jill.

The child molestation scandal led to the cancellation of Duggar's reality show, "19 Kids and Counting," which aired on TLC.

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