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Spank and
Save a Child
By Michael Pearl
You may have noticed No Greater Joy and
Michael Pearl receiving a lot of negative press
lately over advocating corporal discipline as part of
a comprehensive child training program. Television
reporters came out to the office. We were in
newspapers from coast to coast. Even CBS, after
running an uninformed criticism of us, offered
to fly us to New York to answer their unfounded
charges on The Morning Show. I was eager to
answer, and readily agreed. Those of you on our
email list were immediately informed and many of
you prayed for the will of God to be done. CBS
called for a pre-interview and then canceled the
afternoon before the show. I think they discovered
in the pre-interview that I was not the Bible thumping
caricature they had hoped. One news outlet reviewed our
web site and gave a very positive review, saying there was nothing in our
material that would ever lead to child abuse. On the bright side, our sales
skyrocketed this month. Even before this recent publicity, one out of every
75 Americans have been introduced to our ministry.
It’s a battle I would not have fought so boldly twenty years ago
when we still had small children at home. The potential for institutional
retribution is too great—almost a certainty. But I am now too old to be
intimidated, and the battle is much bigger than the spanking flap. They’re
not just coming after me, but all parents who believe parenting is a Godgiven
responsibility.
The anti-spanking campaign is a front for an anti-family agenda, a
progressive socialist movement to reengineer society with government
the only mentor of children. A few well placed individuals in government,
media, and the educational system religiously promote a new world order
where the collective state replaces God and the Constitution. They must
control the minds of the citizenry if they are to institute their totalitarian
policies; and they are well aware from history that mind control must begin
with the youth—thus the public school system. But homeschool parents
and Christian parents protect their children from corrupt worldviews.
The socialists know that the last remaining bulwark against brainwashing
children is parental headship—thus their
hostility toward the family. As long as
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