You Must be Poor For Your Children to Succeed?

You Must be Poor For Your Children to Succeed? October 14, 2018

You have to hand it to No Greater Joy’s Michael Pearl. He finds some very creative ways to justify his own existence, pretending that his way is the best even if it involves feeding your children feed corn for animals and forcing your wife to beg for money to have back surgery. Here Michael claims that you must be poor for your children to succeed in life.

Sounds like Michael does not know any actual millenials. He just picks up his trite characterizations from some other fear-mongerer. Like Jack Chick and his hideously wrong β€˜Chick Tracts’, which I recently read a pile of at a relatives house and just laughed. So much wrong pidgeon holing of people and stereotypes.

Here’s Michael’s secret formula for turning out successful kids. Too bad it didn’t work on his.

And there you go! Michael manages to simultaniously put down anyone not dirt poor, justify his own poverty and make claims he cannot prove. At least he’s not advocating beating a child or an animal for once. This is Quiverfull, not successful then invent a ministry around your failure.


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Suzanne Titkemeyer went from a childhood in Louisiana to a life lived in the shadow of Washington D.C. For many years she worked in the field of social work, from national licensure to working hands on in a children's residential treatment center. Suzanne has been involved with helping ithe plights of women and children' in religious bondage. She is a ordained Stephen's Minister with many years of counseling experience. Now she's retired to be a full time beach bum in Tamarindo, Costa Rica with the monkeys and iguanas. She is also a thalassophile. She also left behind years in a Quiverfull church and loves to chronicle the worst abuses of that particular theology. You can read more about the author here.

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