UNITED STATES
Raw Story
VYCKIE GARRISON, ALTERNET
21 DEC 2015
[We] knelt on bended knee and cried out to God, “This one has brought a great delusion that we can’t defeat. Remove him from our lives.” Within hours that one was destroyed. …We were stunned into holy silence. So we silently, behind closed doors, met eyes and fearfully marveled at God’s decisiveness. His answer was more than we asked for, and so completely terminal.
The abrupt answer built faith and brought extreme temporary relief in the battle that was waging against us. Now we must face a new enemy and are publicly asking God to make a new statement.
This chilling declaration is part of a public prayer request posted by Debi Pearl, wife of Christian evangelist, Michael Pearl, whose controversial parenting manual, To Train Up a Child, advocates child abuse and has been linked with at least three deaths of young children at the hands of their own Christian parents who implemented Pearl’s harsh, “spare the rod, spoil the child” discipline advice.
Debi Pearl is a regressive fundamentalist leader in her own right. Her book, Created To Be His Help Meet, teaches Christian wives to anticipate and meet their husbands’ every need, want, and desire, regardless of the cost to themselves and their children:
“God made you to be a help meet to your husband so you can bolster him, making him more productive and efficient at whatever he chooses to do. You are not on the board of directors with an equal vote. You have no authority to set the agenda. But if he can trust you, he will make you his closest adviser, his confidante, his press secretary, his head of state, his vice-president, his ambassador, his public relations expert, maybe even his speech writer — all at his discretion.”
According to Suzanne Titkemeyer, blogger and administrator of the spiritual abuse recovery site, No Longer Quivering, it appears that Michael and Debi Pearl are facing legal challenges related to their advocacy of male dominance and parental tyranny.
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