{"id":210252,"date":"2025-12-10T17:55:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/jinger-duggar-bans-demonic-disney-film-from-household\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:55:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:55:05","slug":"jinger-duggar-bans-demonic-disney-film-from-household","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/jinger-duggar-bans-demonic-disney-film-from-household\/","title":{"rendered":"Jinger Duggar Bans &#8216;Demonic&#8217; Disney Film From Household"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jinger Duggar grew up without Disney movies.<\/p>\n<p>Like most music, television, and film, it received a ban in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/04\/jinger-duggar-cried-pants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the cult that raised her<\/a> because these stories contain ideas, concepts, and messages that aren\u2019t from Christian fundamentalism.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/12\/jim-bob-duggar-questions-for-sons-in-law-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jinger and Jeremy<\/a> are on a very different path than her infamous parents.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s one iconic Disney film that Jinger <em>never <\/em>plans to let her children see.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_02-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Jinger Duggar makes an unusual facial expression on her podcast.\" class=\"wp-image-542586 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_02-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_02-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_02-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_02-728x410.png 728w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_02-960x540.png 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_02-1080x608.png 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_02-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_02.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_02.png\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Making a normal facial expression, Jinger Duggar has an equally normal conversation \u2014 about whether Disney is \u2018demonic.\u2019<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Image Credit: YouTube)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-are-disney-films-demonic-somehow-no-but-jinger-duggar-grew-up-believing-that-they-were\">Are Disney films \u2018demonic\u2019 somehow? No, but Jinger Duggar grew up believing that they were<\/h2>\n<p>On the Wednesday, December 10 episode of their <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8zYfF1c2T_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Jinger and Jeremy Podcast<\/a><\/em>, Jinger Duggar and Jeremy Vuolo spoke about limits on which children\u2019s films their kids can watch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMagic was something that they, I think it makes sense as a Christian why you would want to avoid that,\u201d Jinger reflected, referring to Jim Bob and Michelle banning classic fairytales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if that was a teaching of Bill Gothard or not,\u201d she admitted, referring to the disgraced IBLP founder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut definitely thinking about the spiritual world and those things that we don\u2019t wanna mess with,\u201d Jinger continued. \u201cI think that was something that a lot of Christians shied away from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the <em>majority <\/em>of American Christians, who constitute at least 60% of the population, do not necessarily shy away from fairytales and Disney films, some more extreme groups \u2014 such as fundamentalists and Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses \u2014 generally do.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Are Disney and Taylor Swift Demonic? Jinger Reacts | Ep. 74\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8zYfF1c2T_0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI think that Disney definitely promoted a lot of that magic. And it was like, you know, that\u2019s kind of what they\u2019re known for,\u201d Jinger went on.<\/p>\n<p>She recalled one time when she was able to pick out a couple of Disney films. Jinger settled on The Shaggy D.A. and Herbie the Lovebug.<\/p>\n<p>Something like <em>Fantasia<\/em>, an artistic tribute to orchestral music which features wizards, ghosts, and imagery from other religions, was off the menu, however.<\/p>\n<p>Jinger shared that her kids \u2014 7-year-old Felicity, 4-year-old Evangeline, and 8-month-old Finnegan \u2014 don\u2019t get much screen time. But they can watch PBS shows like <em>Franklin <\/em>or <em>Curious George<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>(Those are all good and well for Evangeline, but 7 is sort of pushing it)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Jinger Duggar on her podcast.\" class=\"wp-image-542587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01-728x410.png 728w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01-960x540.png 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01-1080x608.png 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Jinger Duggar on her podcast.\" class=\"wp-image-542587 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01-728x410.png 728w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01-960x540.png 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01-1080x608.png 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jingerduggar_01.png\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Believe it or not, Jinger Duggar saw a couple of Disney films as a child. But you probably haven\u2019t heard of them.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Image Credit: YouTube)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-superstition-takes-over\">\u2018Superstition takes over\u2019<\/h2>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\">\u201cI like the slower-paced movies, the older movies, even older Disney movies,\u201d Jinger Duggar expressed. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of fun to let the kids watch that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More extreme sects within Christianity believe that Disney films can be \u201cdemonic.\u201d Not containing demonic imagery, but in some way related to the spiritual warfare that they believe that <em>literal <\/em>demons wage against Christians. (Which, if that\u2019s part of your belief system, probably makes the world a very scary place!)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think a lot of Christians think that things are going to overtake them unknowingly,\u201d Jinger generalized. \u201cAnd that\u2019s kind of the setting I grew up in, superstition takes over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She explained: \u201cSo you think if I engage with this darkness in any form, then it\u2019s going to overtake me and I won\u2019t even know it. And there\u2019s a fear that can grip you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jinger acknowledged: \u201cAnd that\u2019s what I grew up thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Princess and the Frog - Trailer\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uQBy6jqbmlU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>When it comes to which Disney film Jinger and Jeremy have banned from their household, it might sound like overt bigotry \u2014 but that\u2019s not the way that she means it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like the green princess dress. I don\u2019t even remember her name, but it\u2019s with the frog and the princess dress. Is it Tiana? I don\u2019t even know,\u201d Jinger described of the film that \u201cgoes into voodoo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That film is, of course, <em>The Princess and the Frog<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_20-0\">\u201cI watched a section of it one time, and it goes into voodoo, and I\u2019m like, I\u2019m not gonna let my kids watch that because I don\u2019t believe that that\u2019s true,\u201d Jinger explained. \u201cI don\u2019t want them thinking that\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <em>The Princess and the Frog<\/em>, a practitioner of a malicious, fantastical version of Vodun, Dr. Facilier, uses his sinister powers to transform one of Disney\u2019s most handsome princes into a frog. A mambo, a woman who practices Vodun that aims to serve her community, provides a magical helping hand to Tiana and Naveen during their story.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Jeremy Vuolo on his podcast.\" class=\"wp-image-542588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01-728x410.png 728w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01-960x540.png 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01-1080x608.png 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Jeremy Vuolo on his podcast.\" class=\"wp-image-542588 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01-728x410.png 728w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01-960x540.png 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01-1080x608.png 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1210_jeremyvuolo_01.png\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Though Jeremy Vuolo seems to believe that Disney is brainwashing children to defy their parents, real ones know that disobeying your parents is its own reward.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Image Credit: YouTube)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-i-don-t-think-that-s-crazy-conspiracy-but-isn-t-it-though\">\u2018I don\u2019t think that\u2019s crazy conspiracy\u2019 (But isn\u2019t it, though?)<\/h2>\n<p>As we said, we don\u2019t think that Jinger Duggar is consciously espousing bigotry against Afro-Caribbean faith communities. Instead, like most Americans, she probably just doesn\u2019t know much about them. (Maybe she could fix that)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jeremy Vuolo complained about how he feels that many Disney characters are \u201crewarded\u201d for \u201cdisobeying their parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_24-0\">He argued: \u201cYou start seeing certain themes emerge. And I don\u2019t think that\u2019s crazy conspiracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_28-0\">(Making your own choices and going off on your own, finding that the world is scary, is a normal storytelling trope. However, if you believe that Disney is trying to brainwash children into defying their parents, then yes, you have lost the plot)<\/p>\n<p>For the record, it makes sense for parents \u2014 and not society at large \u2014 to place reasonable restrictions on what their young children can watch. Excessive restrictions can often lead to lifelong resentments, and can cause children to miss out simply because their parents don\u2019t care enough to understand.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, this is about limiting how many ideas a child experiences. In reality, other religions, other cultures, all exist \u2014 no matter how much fundamentalists like Jinger\u2019s parents wish that they did not. Jinger\u2019s at least doing better than her parents, but that is a low bar.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/12\/jinger-duggar-bans-disney-film-from-household\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 4 minutes Jinger Duggar grew up without Disney movies. Like most music, television, and film, it received a ban in the cult that raised her because these stories contain ideas, concepts, and messages that aren\u2019t from Christian fundamentalism. In many ways, Jinger and Jeremy are on a very different path than her infamous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-210252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}