I went down the Maranatha Chapman rabbithole for a minute and discovered the following:
- Matthew Chapman has an active and entirely public
Facebook account.
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Lauren, the daughter they married off to a 26 year old when she was 16, is divorced and on her second husband, a very handsome Turkish man that appears much closer to her age. She is very much not a fundie.
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Ezra is a Crossfit and Olympic lifting coach and appears to also not be a fundie in any way.
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Zion is not only not fundie at all but seems to be married and retaining her maiden name.
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Hadassah and her sister Kindle are weightlifters that participate in national competitions.
- Despite Matthew and Maranatha having 7 kids, most of whom seem to be married, they only have five grandkids.
Also, the good genes in that family run strong. They have some good-looking kids with better heads on their shoulders than their parents. Although Matthew seems shockingly normal given the crazy shit in that long article on the last page - tailgating at football games, going to Rolling Stones concerts, posting normal-ish boomer religious shit. He also seems very active in his kids' lives despite none of them having followed the fundie path and appears to support them. Honestly, if I didn't know he was a fucking creep that married a child, I would think he was a pretty okay dude.