Michael Pearl Laughs at Critics
Posted by waterlilly · 8 Comments
On Monday, March 1, 2010 – three weeks after Lydia Schatz was murdered by her parents faithfully following the instructions given by No Greater Joy Ministries – Michael Pearl posted the following on the NGJ Ministries Facebook fan page:
“It has come to may attention that a vocal few are decrying our sensible application of the Biblical rod in training up our children. I laugh at my caustic critics, for our properly spanked and trained children grow to maturity in great peace and love. Numbered in the millions, these kids become the models of self-control and discipline, highly educated and creative—entrepreneurs that pay the taxes your children will receive in entitlements. When your children finally find an honest mechanic or a trustworthy homebuilder, it will be one of ours. When your children apply for a job it will be at a company our children founded. When they go to a doctor, it will be one of our Christian children that heals them with cutting edge innovation. When your adult kids go for therapy it will be one of our kids-become-psychologist that directs them to the couch and challenges them to release their self-loathing and embrace hope for a better tomorrow. When your children grow old and realize their mortality and seek to make peace with their Creator, it will be one of our children that shares with them the message of God’s love and forgiveness.
My five grown children are laughing at your foolish, uninformed criticism of God’s method of child training, for their kids—my 17 grandkids—are laughing . . . because that is what they do most of the time. They laugh when Daddy is coming home. The laugh when it is time to do more homeschooling. They laugh when it is time to practice the violin and piano. They laugh when they see their Big Papa coming (that’s me) because Big Papa is laughing and they don’t care why just as long as he laughs with them.
My granddaughters laugh with joy after giving their baby dolls a spanking for “being naughty” because they know their dolls will grow up to be the best mamas and daddies in the world—just like them.
People all around the world, in places like Russia, China, Germany, New Zealand, Guatemala, Peru, Africa, and fifty other countries are laughing with joy because after applying the Biblical principles found in our books they finally have happy and obedient children.
Even my chickens are laughing . . . well, actually it more like cackling, because they just laid another organic egg for my breakfast and they know that it was that same piece of ¼ inch plastic supply line that trained the dogs not to eat chicken….” posted at 1:05pm by “No Greater Joy Ministries”
I hate to reprint his words, but I also want to make note of them in case they disappear or are edited elsewhere.
I want to note again that this statement was made just THREE WEEKS after Lydia Schatz died and the District Attorney investigating her case made Michael Pearl aware that the family had been using No Greater Joy materials. Michael Pearl released a statement saying that his ministry was not responsible…which is quite predictable, one would expect such a statement.
But it would make sense to BE QUIET after that, wouldn’t it? Releasing the above statement with its dismissive tone is unbelievable. It speaks to an arrogance that defies Christian comprehension, mercy, grace, and humility.
The content also defies comprehension, but I’m not sure my brain has quite processed all the claims made above. I will probably have to come back to that another day.
waterlilly
The more I read about this story the more my heart breaks. This is so awful. I just want to cry every time I read something new.
I am glad more and more people are speaking out about this.
I just wanted to point everyone to an excellent response to Pearl’s awful “laughter” that Vyckie Garrison at No Longer Quivering has written.
http://nolongerquivering.com/2010/03/03/no-laughing-matter-michael-pearls-callous-response-to-critics/#more-4517
I am sure the conservative Christian homeschoolers will continue to defend Michael Pearl, the man who advocates child torture.
Why don’t you meet his kids and grandkids personally and see if his ‘claims’ are true. I think you lack the “Christian comprehension, mercy, grace, and humility’ because you already know what you’ll find.
Why isn’t Darwin being chastised for others ‘perverting’ his unscientific theory of evolution to promote mass genocide?
I think it is very interesting that people are attacking the Pearls over some parents who went off the deep-end. Why don’t we attack Advil when someone tries to commit suicide with pain medication? Why don’t we sue Budweiser for the idiot who got drunk and killed a family while driving drunk? It is absurd to blame the Pearls, who by the way are pulling their teaching from God’s Word, for what people do with their books. I don’t expect people to agree with God’s methods because to non-Christians they seem foolish. I understand that the death of any child at the hands of anyone is horrible. Yet, find in the Pearl’s book where they tell you to beat your child mercilessly. Oh yeah, it doesn’t say that.. Are antibiotics effective to fight infection if taken correctly? Yes. Do you take the whole bottle at once? No. That would be idiotic. Same thing with spanking your child. If you use it biblically and correctly does it work? Yes. If you abuse your power as a parent and beat your kid in anger does it work? Absolutely not. I would think if you are smart enough to be able to read a book, you would be smart enough not to blame your angry murder on it.
Micheal Pearl laughs at his critics when he should be crying over a dead child. Callous, no worse than callous; the man is on a pathological power trip.