With Amazon releasing a documentary on the Duggar family entitled Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, the world is learning that the famous family and The Institute in Basic Life Principles had connections in high places. The Iblp presents itself as a religious organization, but former members have explained they had hopes of world domination. Now, the Amazon series is giving an in-depth look into all the connections.

It became apparent during Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets that the leader of the Iblp, Bill Gothard, had his hands in a lot of schemes and tried to figure out the best way to send his disciples into high-ranking positions. One of his main thoughts was to create the Joshua Generation, which was the millennial generation who could go forth and conquer in the name of God. Bill took the best and the brightest from his Christian home school program and...