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"Eek! 19 Kids and Counting star Jessa Duggar&amp;apos;s boyfriend, Ben Seewald, is in hot water after posting and then deleting an anti-Catholicism rant on his Facebook page on July 18.\r\n\r\nJessa, 21, and her famous family who star on the TLC reality show are known for their strong Christian values&amp;#x2014;what they call &amp;quot;Independent Baptists&amp;quot;&amp;#x2014;yet have managed to stay out of the press when it comes to opposing views, until now, that is.&amp;#xA0;\r\nIt all started when Seewald, 19, wrote a Facebook post which criticized Catholics for their &amp;quot;deadly errors.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I have nothing against individuals who are Catholic,&amp;quot; Seewald, who is also an &amp;quot;Independent Baptist,&amp;quot; began. &amp;quot;I know a lot of Catholics who are great people. What I DO have a problem with is the teaching that man can merit God&amp;#x2019;s favor through his own works or the works of other fallen men,&amp;#x201D; he wrote,  in reference to Ephesians 2:8-9. Seewald went on to list other beliefs he has a &amp;quot;problem with&amp;quot; and then concluded, &amp;quot;My conscience is captive to the word of God. Where my Catholic friends adhere to God&amp;apos;s Word, I adhere. Where they depart from Scripture, I will in no way support, but will call them out because I love them and desire that they be turned from their deadly errors.&amp;quot;\r\nThis message did not sit well with his Catholic followers. Before deleting the post, one commenter retorted: &amp;quot;I hope you will retract your statement about Catholics.&amp;quot; While another said, &amp;quot;Ben is the worst. He is just the worst. This kind of &amp;apos;Christian love&amp;apos; is one of the most sickening sentiments on the planet. It&amp;#x2019;s demeaning, it&amp;#x2019;s condescending, it&amp;#x2019;s self-aggrandizing and it turns my stomach. Not to mention he got literally everything about Catholicism wrong.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThe Duggar family has yet to comment on the incident.\r\nJessa Duggar and Seewald began their &amp;quot;courtship&amp;quot; in 2013. &amp;quot;Courtship is a new season of life. It&amp;#x2019;s exciting,&amp;#x201D; she told Good Morning America in March of the relationship status where they&amp;apos;re allowed to side-hug but not kiss. &amp;#x201C;We call it dating with a purpose and not just frivolous, really considering the person as a potential life partner.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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