Video Chapters: 0:00 Intro: Who Is Debi Pearl? 3:20 Plot Summary of the first 100 pages 26:12 Bad Pictures, Bad Bad Pictures 30:10 This Isn't How Friends Treat Each Other 35:50 Yancey! 46:41 The Characters' Motivation Makes No Sense 1:02:06 Shame the poor! 1:11:16 God Saves Books, Not Kids, You Silly Goose! 1:21:14 Malachi Has A VISION. 1:25:06 Our Hero Assaults A Child 1:31:16 Magdalene's Past 1:46:24 DISGUSTING SMUT 1:47:42 A Very Eventful Trip To Buy Yogurt
@arcadiaberger9204 Жыл бұрын
@user-xx2xp5wd4d Agreed.
@harlowitter3060 Жыл бұрын
I recommend you check out "Redeeming Love" by Francine Rivers. It's another Fundie book with a whole bunch of mysogyny and bad relationship stuff, and needs to be called out as well. Ex Fundie Diaries covered it as well.
@raya.p.l5919 Жыл бұрын
Get yr free all old aches and pains washed away. Last 30 min is intense. A gift from Jesus for all.
@bugsysoc Жыл бұрын
Who should I be bigoted against? Debi: yes
@edvh88 Жыл бұрын
I don’t think we can technically call it “bigoted” when the person in question is just abusive and awful. Can one be bigoted against Hitler for example? (I know, genocide vs abuse isn’t a great comparison…)
@spOOkytimes Жыл бұрын
@@edvh88 "Bigoted person: a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc."(Encyclopedia Britannica). Hitler is one of the most hated people in the world and it is far from unfair. There is a huge difference between hating a group who was literally made to commit atrocities vs. hating a person for the color of their skin, religion, etc. due to heavy generalizations. If Pearl hated literally everyone, including white Christians, I could maybe see where you are coming from, but she does not.
@ava_marie_v Жыл бұрын
@@spOOkytimes I think they just misunderstood the comment and thought the person was saying that we should be bigoted towards Debi.
@spOOkytimes Жыл бұрын
@@ava_marie_v ah that makes sense.
@homohawk Жыл бұрын
LMAO
@Amandoop Жыл бұрын
"The Herb Den" sounds like it should be a weed dispensary or an Amsterdam style coffee shop.
@Poke-Chann Жыл бұрын
Getting my magic jam from the Herb Den
@biseragjurovska1998 Жыл бұрын
I thought the same lmao
@warlordofbritannia Жыл бұрын
@@Poke-Chann I sprinkle it on toast, done wonders for my arthritis!
@causticwit Жыл бұрын
I'd go there!
@samuell.foxton4177 Жыл бұрын
“Herb shop” is definitely a euphemism for weed dispensary/coffee shop
@blockblock376 Жыл бұрын
When I took Arabic in Uni (German is my first language, English second, took 6 years of Latin and an introduction to French and Swedish too) someone asked me if they "tried to talk about religion at all" ... no, they teach us to describe our hobbies, pets and ask for the way to the supermarket as any other language course does smh
@FemaleFullmetal Жыл бұрын
Yeah for real. I mean yeah, religion is going to come up in learning any language, especially since learning language often involves learning about different cultures as well, but, like, language teachers aren't out there trying to indoctrinate people 🙄
@whatismylifeanymore Жыл бұрын
@@FemaleFullmetal LMAO fr
@Saga_Anserum Жыл бұрын
the closest thing to any sort of "religious influence" I've experienced from my language-learning is adopting "di immortales!" as an exclamation from Latin
@FemaleFullmetal Жыл бұрын
@@Saga_Anserum similarly (I am guessing since I don't know Latin), a common phrase in Spanish is "ojalá" which comes from Arabic "enshallah" (sp), that basically means "God willing." It is literally used like the word "hopefully."
@DataRae-AIEngineer Жыл бұрын
i lived in Egypt for 2 years. Arabic has lots of religion built in. Like "in shah allah I will go to the super market."
@jaspersgrimoire Жыл бұрын
The idea of translating the Bible so Muslims can learn about Jesus is wild because Muslims do believe that Jesus existed and was a prophet of god. They just don’t believe he’s the last or the only key to salvation. Who’s gonna tell Debbie Pearl that the Muslims do, in fact, know about Jesus.
@MissCaraMint Жыл бұрын
Do you really think she would believe anyone who would try to tell her?
@tydurr759 Жыл бұрын
They don't know the real Jesus; the one who said He WAS GOD. They call Him a liar to His face. They don't know Him, and He doesn't know them.
@justaponyyy Жыл бұрын
cope
@Yllania Жыл бұрын
@@tydurr759 You've never actually looked into it have you
@honeyryderchile Жыл бұрын
Not too mention they essentially worship the same God lol Debbie is so willfully ignorant and full of hate will won't accept the truth or facts, because she also seems narcissistic, and because I think she actually has other mental illnesses. If she wasn't such a cruel horrible person I might feel bad for her, but I just don't have it in me. Debbie doesn't really know any God except her and he4 evil husband, certainly not the teachings of Jesus lol Mohammed doesn't want her either.
@tallman2210 Жыл бұрын
Debi Pearl sounds like she has written more books than she read.
@RachelOates Жыл бұрын
I would not be surprised!
@stephaniesaslut12616 Жыл бұрын
Haha!😂
@lauriechan1426 Жыл бұрын
Just like onision!! 😂
@lisajohnson4744 Жыл бұрын
She is quite illiterate. Not that she *can’t* read, but she doesn’t read anything that can educate her well. She’s not actually a very bright woman, just opinionated.
@M1nt.n1te Жыл бұрын
I need to be so real right now these descriptions of girls from Debbie sound incredibly homoerotic
@sabinethegaydragongeek Жыл бұрын
Either she is really closeted and has internalized homophobia (projecting it onto others too) or her husband helped her write the descriptions of these women! 🤦🏼♀️
@KireiC Жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same! The men's appearances seem to get quick summaries (some of them gross, if the guy is a creep) and the women get these lush descriptions. Just... looks a certain way. Gives off a vibe.
@lllaaauuurrraaa Жыл бұрын
Reminded me of the way Ben Shapiro described female characters as "a blonde woman" etc, but went into Grindr levels of physical details for even the tertiary male characters in his white nationalist fanfic.
@joeyj6808 Жыл бұрын
Speaking as a gay man, I am deeply offended. 🧐
@ms.annthropic6341 Жыл бұрын
@@lllaaauuurrraaa Truuuuue!! Benny Shaps is a size queen, too 😂 Fr, how many times did he say “big bear of a man”? 😏 Also a writer who mentions a dynamic thing having happened previously, rather than just writing and describing that scene. 😂
@sam-ky9sj Жыл бұрын
Honestly the "Shame the poor!" part really affected me. I currently have a lot of cavities and I just can't bring myself to get them fixed because we don't have the money, knowing that someone genuinely things my breath is stinky or I look pathetic because of it hurts. Making fun of poor people is such a disgusting thing, Debby genuinely sounds like a rotten person. I have to thank you for being so open and sharing your story, even though it's shameful and scary to do so in front of so many strangers, because it makes me feel hopeful and less scared of what is to come. I'm still young and I'm really looking forward to being able to afford all the dental care I need... Again, thank you for sharing, it made me feel less alone. :)
@nomeayano7757 Жыл бұрын
That book was awful, and the part about poverty was very personal for many of us, I am sure. So thank you for sharing this with the community, just as Rachel did. Not much I can say, but it won't be long now. Been there, done that, it gets better.
@sawyer9969 Жыл бұрын
I'm late to the video but i just wanted to say although I've never had to struggle with severe poverty, there are good people that either know your struggles or just won't judge you for them. ❤healthcare/dental care etc can be difficult when you don't have the proper resources and it does NOT make you dirty, gross, or unlikeable. Anyone who thinks dark spots on your teeth make you unworthy of friendship is not somebody you want to be speaking to anyway!
@klarasee8069 ай бұрын
Poverty is NEVER something to be ashamed for. To look down on poor people is something to be ashamed for. I can‘t go to the dentist, too. My main problem with it is not money but fear. I don‘t fear the pain or the sounds of the instruments or injections or other stuff people usually fear at the dentist, but due to my PTSD I literally have fear of death when I sit in a chair and someone comes so close to me that I get the feeling I can‘t escape. I have tried it many times, but even medicine and therapy haven‘t helped me to overcome it, yet. So I live with bad teeth, too, and I know that people look down on me for it. But I won‘t let those idiots define my worth. I want to see them walking in my shoes for just one day. Or in yours. I really hope you’ll find a way to get your teeth done soon. Thank you for making me feel a little less alone.
@sam-ky9sj9 ай бұрын
@@klarasee806 Wow, reading this made me feel so seen. I also get very scared at the dentist, both because I'm scared of how much it's gonna hurt me money-wise and because I also suffer from PTSD: someone being that close, paired with the lights and uncomfortable sounds is so triggering. I'm so glad you've got such a positive outlook, those judgemental people do not define us
@cryptokinku6824 Жыл бұрын
My gf and her parents are Polish immigrants, and once at a swim event, some other moms thought her mom was a cleaning lady because of her accent. Her mom has a masters degree and works for NASA. There's a very unfortunate association with non-English accents in the US, and it really bothers me. I'd like most of these people to try to speak a second or third language! As someone who loves linguistics and language learning, it is NOT easy!
@atlas956 Жыл бұрын
i think that‘s fascinating because in my experience, most americans will have a pretty noticeable accent in most foreign languages, and only a couple out of those i met actually cared about improving at all. yet native speakers would bend over backwards to understand them anyway or correct learner‘s mistakes. meanwhile in the US almost EVERY vaguely foreign accent is immediately under scrutiny no matter how good the english is. if also make a slight grammatical error, some just assume you‘re stupid. i can‘t even begin to imagine what it must be like for POC. i‘ve met americans who were rude to people having foreign accents in english WHILE BEING IN THE LATTERS‘ HOME COUNTRY. if you‘re gonna criticize my friend‘s english, how about you let us hear your german??
@aurea.10 ай бұрын
As a Polish woman, this made me wince 🙃
@klarasee8069 ай бұрын
Sadly, as a German, I can tell you that this happens in Germany, too. Our racism in Germany (and overall Europe) is very much based on cultural aspects like language or religion, whereas it’s much more based on skin colour in the US. The racism against Polish people in Germany is often overlooked, but once you are aware of it, you see it everywhere. Looking for a good job or a new apartment? Good luck if you have a Polish accent! But no matter on what it’s based and who it‘s against: Racism is racism. It‘s always unfair and… just dumb. It‘s a reminiscence of ancient times and has no place in modern societies.
@samwindmill82648 ай бұрын
Polish in particular is pretty damn hard, much respect
@TheYasmineFlower Жыл бұрын
The way Debi writes women reminds me of the way I wrote women before I realized I wasn't heterosexual, lol.
@happytofu5 Жыл бұрын
It sounded she had an awakening watching Pocahontas xD
@Estaaa1306 Жыл бұрын
No because i was thinking this throughout the whole video
@Niobesnuppa Жыл бұрын
I mean, her relationship with her husband seems far from loving, so I'd believe it, honestly.
@SpecialBlanket Жыл бұрын
Before I realized I was gay I purposely sought out the most intense 24/7 TPE dom/sub relationship I could find bc fear is the only think that my body could sublimate into arousal and hypervigilance was the only way I could retain interest. A lot of christian patriarchy stuff sounds EXACTLY like what I was super into.
@GabeNode21 Жыл бұрын
It's incredible that in a self insert novel Pearl made the deliberate choice to make her character a *literal supervillain* who profiteers on the manufactured scarcity of her magic jam. Incredible self own there.
@migaloki6512 Жыл бұрын
This book manages to get more and more wild yet still incredibly boring and feels like a fever dream, excited for the next part but also just wow 🙃
@warlordofbritannia Жыл бұрын
It’s a crime to make something this wild on paper boring Yes, that pun was fully intended
@Kohana07 Жыл бұрын
It feels like a bad fanfiction 😅
@TotoroK9 Жыл бұрын
I want to say, Rachel, thank you for being open about your last teeth problems and how it affected you. I have the same issues right now (more from depression than money) and you're the only reason they don't make me feel miserable. You're encouraging me to go to the dentist and to not feel ashamed. Thank you so much. I know it's a hard topic to talk about
@edvh88 Жыл бұрын
Teeth are such a sensitive topic. Mine were just naturally great for years and now I’m in my 30s, my dentist retired during Covid, I haven’t found a new one I like yet, I know I have several cavities and my gums aren’t what they should be. Sigh.
@AmbassadorKat Жыл бұрын
Check out your local dental school, they’re almost always looking for patients and the cost is usually about half as much, even if you don’t have insurance
@johndoe4110 Жыл бұрын
I have bad teeth because my parents were anti-medicine anti-vax christian fundamentalists. Now that I escaped the community I am too poor to go to a dentist. Hell I don't even have a home. Anyway when I went to detox, I met a lot of people who had wayyy worse teeth than me. Made me feel a little better about myself and I realized that everyone who's poor and does drugs has shit teeth. Really helped me stop focusing on it so much but I still try and brush when I can to take care of myself.
@pokemonfreak6669 Жыл бұрын
It's so funny that this woman will have these characters say the most deplorable shit, but heaven forbid she actually spells out a swear word.
@arcadiaberger9204 Жыл бұрын
The first thing in the very, *_VERY_* long list of things I would do differently if if were my book is that if I were writing a book which featured a magic condiment that could cure all ills up to and including raising the dead, that would be the CENTER of my story, not a minor plot point which could easily be replaced by something as simple as a really tasty new jelly that sold well.
@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos Жыл бұрын
Yep, that single plot point could easily generate a dozen compelling narratives.
@arcadiaberger9204 Жыл бұрын
@@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos Just goes to show that Debi Pearl *_does not write well._*
@TheYasmineFlower Жыл бұрын
"there's no muslim solution" Debi activating my German red flags here... this sounds familiar.
@MissCaraMint Жыл бұрын
No kidding.
@melissabattles3196 Жыл бұрын
I'm glad Rachel called that out because it does sound SO MUCH like "Final Solution"! Absolutely terrifying 😳😢
@Caelinus Жыл бұрын
Honestly I kept thinking that this was a book written from the perspective of one of those Hillbilly Blood Cult Murder Families horror tropes, but then I remembered that this family was supposed to be a bunch of "good Christians." Like I was genuinely getting "creepy" vibes so strong from them that all my experience reading books in the past told me they planned to skin that poor young woman and turn her into their weird immortality jam. (See the Baker Family from Resident Evil 7.)
@feralperil Жыл бұрын
Im so glad I wasn't the only one getting Baker family vibes 😬
@harrisonpeterson3733 Жыл бұрын
Welcome to the family, son!
@ms.annthropic6341 Жыл бұрын
I keep forgetting that they’re supposed to be good people that we care about, not disposable characters written for us to despise so we’re eager to see them die. 🙄
@advictoriams Жыл бұрын
It's funny because the Christian angle mixed with the Hillbilly Murder Cult trope could make for a really great horror book. Like you could actually make it terrifying
@hatientacetlen4246 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if Debi not knowing the difference between friendly ribbing and people who hate each other shows she's never had a friend she respects or trusts.
@alexprado7594 Жыл бұрын
The absolute egocentric nerve of thinking you're the only line for Arabs to reach Christianity is just... amazing. Especially when there already exists a whole group of Christian Arabs. Just pure colonial thinking through and through.
@rivendells_shona Жыл бұрын
The Pearls: “Nabeel who?”
@Sarah-re7cg Жыл бұрын
She’s a white supremacist. Just the entire book should be classified as hate speech.
@samwindmill82648 ай бұрын
They prolly think Jesus was a white dude 🥴🥴🥴
@Maria-hq6dh4 ай бұрын
especially when Christianity literally began in the middle east fhfjfj
@randobroccoliboi1575 Жыл бұрын
I can't get past the fact that Debi named the child character who was forced into prostitution "Magdalene". Really couldn't resist misrepresenting her own religious text, huh?
@stephaniesaslut126163 ай бұрын
It's because not only is she ignorant about everyone else's religion but she is also ignorant about her own.
@lavenderdust7912 Жыл бұрын
Man, I've never seen a woman write in such a "men writing women" Way
@isoney Жыл бұрын
I haven’t finished listening and I’m sure Rachel is going to make some serious points but I can’t help just being swept away by the terrorist and magic jam plot line. I genuinely thought I misheard that it was about jam. 😂😂
@trixjoyce Жыл бұрын
I do also hate it when people mock people with English as a second language. I'm myself speak Swedish, English, and a bit of Spanish and Portuguese. Now I'm learning Devanagari and Hindi (and more Portuguese) due to my heritage being mixed. I'm mixed luso-indian (Portuguese-Indian, an ethnicity that was born from the colonization of Portuguese people in India) and Swedish. I was raised with many languages and I even mess up in Swedish (my native language) sometimes due to having a multi-lingual family... Sometimes native English speakers think their language is "default" and they should be understood everywhere in the entire world and even go their way to ridicule people with accents such as myself. It's a skill to learn a second (or third etc!) language and if you reading this know more than one language, I'm proud of you! I find this book offensive both because it looks down on people with English as a second language AND because of the attempt at writing the accents in the dialogue AND by calling Chayanne "Indian" when she's native American! It's both offensive to native Americans and it's offensive to actual Indians (who have a heritage in India in ASIA!!!) like me. Arrghh, this actually made me more angry than I want to admit...
@KireiC Жыл бұрын
Idk why but it also bothers me that Debi couldn't be bothered to look up perhaps a regional nation that Cheyenne (sp?) could have lineage from. It would lend some specificity, and spare her having to say the slightly clunky descriptor "native American" or the inaccurate "Indian." But that would require *effort* and this book so far has illustrated that she puts all her energy into writing that awful phonetic dialect, instead of anything that would make the book more interesting.
@trixjoyce Жыл бұрын
@@KireiC totally agree with you!
@trixjoyce Жыл бұрын
@@mert828 I don't know much about it but it was only the Goa area in India. You can google that. My great grandma was Portuguese. All I know is my own relatives and what they told me.
@KireiC Жыл бұрын
@@mert828 thanks! The word was escaping me when I replied and it sounds like it's more appropriate.👍
@fmac6441 Жыл бұрын
@@trixjoyce como a pessoa no outro comentário fiquei intrigado. Sou brasileiro e, obviamente sei da colônia portuguesa em Goa, mas tinha a impressão de que quase não havia portugueses por lá e a língua não era comum. Se não se incomodar de explicar sua bisavó fazia parte da administração colonial?
@d.w.stratton4078 Жыл бұрын
They're money hungry because Prosperity Gospel suggests that "god" gives good things in this earth to people who are good, thus if you get a bunch of money it MUST be the case that you're a really good person because otherwise why would "god" be rewarding you? This, despite the fact that Jesus says very clearly "No man can serve two masters: you cannot serve both God and money." And "It is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle."
@warlordofbritannia Жыл бұрын
Jesus was such a based CHAD, it’s amazing how few Christians actually take from his example
@spOOkytimes Жыл бұрын
Exactly. In the two passages you gave as example, the Bible is saying wealth does not mean you are going to heaven. In fact, tithings and generosity to less fortunate people are lauded in the Bible. You can have money, but there is a fine line between being comfortable and full on greed. “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs” 1 Timothy 6:10. Judas was the only disciple concerned about wealth. This just skims the surface of how backwards prosperity gospel is, and how people that subscribe to it just use it to benefit themselves and be hateful.
@Ashaliyeva Жыл бұрын
I absolutely *LOATHE* the prosperity gospel.
@Romanticoutlaw Жыл бұрын
I've had an argument with a theist where when I pointed out the camel line, they just said it was more difficult, not impossible, and that god can make anything happen 🤷 I can't imagine missing the point that hard
@FrogsForBreakfast Жыл бұрын
@@Romanticoutlaw "Rich men will go to heaven when pigs fly." "So you're saying it's possible."
@hatientacetlen4246 Жыл бұрын
It sounds like she wanted the mean best friends trope but didn't understand that friends are ok with each other's jabs because they have mutual respect and support for each other. She only understood the teasing but not the respect.
@saintdude6032 Жыл бұрын
Dude, Jesus would be throwing hands with these folk. Being judgemental, selling God's miracles, using the lords name in vain (and using God's name in vain is not 'omg' its more like "I'm burning this place to the ground in the name of God") And just overall annoying. The book got one thing right, church folk can be the meanest people you can meet
@saintdude6032 Жыл бұрын
Also, who's prying like that. Most folk would keep it simple and short, not paragraphs and re-using god. Like, I'm sure you can just say their name once . You don't have to go. "Oh lord, this is mess up, Lord, oh good lord," you could just "Dear lord in heaven bless this beautiful morning, and everyone's else's, for you are our savior amen." just keep it short and sweet. Or just do the hand prayer thing.
@radioserrelind Жыл бұрын
I love you for speaking for people with dental bad luck. I'm missing a front tooth -- it broke off near the gum and I don't know if I can afford to fix it, plus I have a lifetime of dental trauma. I don't know how to get around this so I just cheerfully pretend it's not there.
@availanila Жыл бұрын
You can actually fix it and it's cheap depending on where you are. I broke both my front teeth 🤣, and it cost me 50USD to fix in my neck of the woods. Check out the cost of crowns per type, veneers by type or those little gap filler dentures. I got plastic crowns for 10USD per tooth.
@AmbassadorKat Жыл бұрын
Try your local dental school, they do great work because otherwise they don’t graduate lol (every step is verified by a full dentist) and the cost is usually like half as much, with or without insurance
@BigMamou367 Жыл бұрын
@Dorothy Lensa you must not live in California
@BigMamou367 Жыл бұрын
I have Dental trauma. It causes anxiety just thinking I kneed to go in.
@availanila Жыл бұрын
@@BigMamou367 no, I do not.
@zerozeroren Жыл бұрын
The way the text and characters treat Magdalene is absolutely appalling and abhorrent. These cruel, cruel people!!!
@rc31802 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely. The way Bobbi jo expects respect is exactly what many fundies think and act like. It's horrible
@MoreEriksson Жыл бұрын
Remember, Debi is coauthor of _To Train Up a Child_ and obviously she's viewing the Magdalene character though that lens; making a teenager act in a way where strict discipline is required to correct behavior 🤮
@kravchenkoolga8714 Жыл бұрын
“All five dialects of Arabic” wow. As someone who studied linguistics, just.. ugh 💀
@rc31802 Жыл бұрын
Considering the horrible abuse Michael and Debi demonstrated in their training videos, I'm not surprised that Debi would think it was OK for Bobbi Jo to be so horrible to Magdalen
@warlordofbritannia Жыл бұрын
On the bright side, your first video on “How to Train a Child” was how I found this channel. That’s one good thing that has indirectly, unintentionally, came of the Pearls!
@letterborneVods Жыл бұрын
same!
@flannerysnotebook Жыл бұрын
Hi, Native American here. So, the reasons why we're often depicted as "exotic", over-fetishized and hypersexualized, and referred to as "Indian" is actually really simple: racism. Well, it's more complicated than that, but take that as the shorthand. First, "exotic" is because most people in the US have either never met a Native American or if they have it has only been in very specific "exotic" contexts like going to one of the cultural outreach events like public powwows. Basically, we're seen as exotic since we make up roughly 2% of the US population and a large portion of us live in communities segregated from the rest of Americans. Then those of us who don't live on reservations tend to be mixed-race (hi!) to the point many of us can pass as a different race or ethnic group (hi!, white passing and can look Latine if I spend 5 minutes or more outside) and most people just assume. There's also the disgusting elements of daring to compare a Native American woman to the Disney depiction of Pocahantas which is... oh so very racist and spits on the history of the real woman. Then for the overfetishization and hypersexualization... simply put it's a continued consequence of colonization. I think it's pretty clear that Debi is just using her book as a medium to espouse white, Christian supremacy, so it shouldn't be hard to see how that translates to the history of violence committed against indigenous women and how indigenous men were treated as primitive, primal, and animalistic. Then as for those of us who are neither... how we were forced to be men or women or slaughtered for our "degeneracy" of contradicting Christian values. Finally, "Indian" was because white people couldn't grasp the concept they didn't land in India like the thought, so they labeled us with that. When they finally realized, instead of calling us what we were, they stuck with "Indian" or the slur "Injun" as a means of stripping us of our identities to be more convenient for them. Later, it got codified in law and many of us just accepted it as our government services and formal recognition is as "Indians". Older Native Americans just use it because it's easier at this point than fighting for basic dignity we will never receive. Younger Indigenous Americans will refer to ourselves by a variety of things, but may write "NDN" as an acknowledgment of what we've been labeled as and a reclamation of our identities by calling ourselves it on our own terms. (I don't care for "Indian" as a label to be used towards us and see it as a slur when used towards Native Americans, but "NDN" is based af as far as I'm concerned.) I hope you found this informative. If you have any questions, please ask and I'd be glad to answer!
@FeministCatLadySpinster Жыл бұрын
It's Debi Pearl, so I know it's going to be bad, but if the video is two hours... she must somehow be even worse than I thought.
@Melissamms Жыл бұрын
Growing up, there was a couple at my church in their late 30s/early 40s who used to be addicted to heroin. They were actually a really sweet couple with a daughter who was about 20ish (they had her as teens themselves). They were both from very abusive homes and had experienced loads of trauma. Addiction is almost always trauma-driven. They were quiet, polite people and the pastor was constantly BEGGING them to tell their story in front of the congregation. Eventually they gave in and you could tell they were not ready and uncomfortable doing so. They got no sympathy, just praise that they finally came to Jesus. It always made me feel a bit ill, like our church was exploiting them for advertising. "Look, you should join our church because these disgusting sinners did and now see how much better their lives are!" I myself struggle with an ongoing opiate addiction and it's unbelievable how religious people LOVE to prey upon addicts. No thanks, I'm in therapy. I dont need a bunch of randos judging me. They target people who in desperate need to structure, normalcy, and probably feel loads of guilt and shame. I see that in this book. So many people like the Pearl's have a savior complex, but their methods aren't rooted in any sort of psychology and they do no work to actually understand addiction.
@samsprague2846 Жыл бұрын
Many years ago, I saw Gary Tuchman of CNN interview this "author" about To Train up a Child. She was a cartoon caricature of a religious zealot. She smiled every second, and her eyes reflected merciless, vapid ignorance. She seemed absolutely delighted about whatever might have happened as a result of her abuse manual.
@FennecTheRabbit Жыл бұрын
This book sounds utterly bizarre. Thank you for reading this so we don’t have to. Also the sweater you have is adorable.
@KetchupCanvas Жыл бұрын
Yet another case of "A Christian makes all other Christians look like ignorant assholes" 😑😑 If I cringed any harder I'd have an aneurysm
@shbondful Жыл бұрын
I know why I did it, but it still feels odd in retrospect to have gone “eeee, yay, Rachel made Part II of this monstrosity, it’s here!” upon putting the title and channel together…all before even double-checking the thumbnail to make sure it was, in fact, Debi’s bizarre attempt at…literature (?).
@tenthweb Жыл бұрын
Great to know I'm not the only one who was excessively excited to see this come out!
@katashworth41 Жыл бұрын
If I ever feel insecure about my own writing I’ll just watch this and know it could be so much worse.
@nathanflores1974 Жыл бұрын
1:02:42 this actually made me sad. Im a scholar in this really fancy school and my classmates are wayyyy better off than me. The amount of times I have to explain that I dont have access to the things they consider normal to have is really embarrassing for me. I have never been more offended by a book before
@nomeayano7757 Жыл бұрын
I am in the same position, feel you and Rachel. Not much to say, but I hope you are holding up okay.
@RockLikeAStone Жыл бұрын
My sister literally gave me that first book when my daughter was a toddler. She was the best little girl you could imagine even during the “terrible twos”. I never even thought about reading it and I’m very happy I didn’t. How gross
@niki_artsu Жыл бұрын
I think this is the only book that could ever possibly catch up to Empress Theresa😂 They both have the most incomprehensible and weird plot, ignore science and common sense completely and seem to make it their mission to offend as many people as possible... All that's left is for the main characters in this to escape an assassination attempt with a Troom Troom/ 5-Min Craft life hack🤣
@jojothebard6687 Жыл бұрын
Honestly this makes Empress Theresa look tame in comparison. Outside of the weird asiaphobia, Empress Theresa is insanely incompetent, weird, and well, insane, but it could be hypothetically enjoyed as a guilty pleasure. This book on the other hand is just simply offensive; offensive to cultures, offensive to races, and most of all, offensive to me as an author.
@hatientacetlen4246 Жыл бұрын
1:24:50 "Why isn't Magdaline in school, why is she working." Because either Debi thinks 16 is old enough to be an adult in which case she is brushing over the child rape she suffered or she is a child and since she is a child she doesn't have any say in her life and can be used as free labout. The right love to treat children as objects.
@Kartissa Жыл бұрын
1:15:18 One thing that often gets overlooked is that any Christians saying "Glory to God in the Highest" in Arabic would likely also be using 'Allahu Akbar.'
@pennyforyourthots Жыл бұрын
I mean, it's the same god, so that makes sense. Hell, Jesus is even in the Quran, he's just not the son of God (I think he's a prophet or something)
@warlordofbritannia Жыл бұрын
@@pennyforyourthots The penultimate prophet, second only to Mohammad among mortal souls if memory serves
@Kartissa Жыл бұрын
@@pennyforyourthots Yeah, that's something else that kept occurring to me listening to this review. The people in the book keep going on about how 'Muslims need to learn the story of God,' when it's literally already part of their beliefs. It's just not the most important part.
@samwindmill82646 ай бұрын
Also, using the term "Sharia law" is kind of like saying "Law law"
@rosemaidenvixen Жыл бұрын
My insomnia's been pretty bad this week, and seeing you upload this video was a real bright spot for me. Not only is listening to your voice soothing (I could listen to you reading a phone book) but hearing you tear apart this trash was entertaining as hell. Thanks so much for all the content you share, your videos have helped me through some tough times.
@Zelda00Gamer Жыл бұрын
Debi is a narcissist. She could never handle an editor! Constructive criticism? Critique? Suggestions?! The gall! Debi is perfect 😂😂
@lauriechan1426 Жыл бұрын
She gives really strong onision and his books energy
@frankensteinlives Жыл бұрын
Great job on this video, I appreciate all the work you put into making informative, funny yet sincere content. Especially when the subject matter is anything by Debi Pearl
@RoRonsku Жыл бұрын
Also I'm pretty sure the 'universal child protection bill' is referring to the UN Convention on the Rights of Children. I wonder what issue Debbie might have with it. Could it possibly be the article going against child abuse?
@CreativaArtly Жыл бұрын
I had Muslim friends growing up. Not all Muslims are bad or terrorists so this book already makes me mad for that. This book makes me mad on every single level possible.
@lemsip207 Жыл бұрын
I live in a multicultural city so there will be a lot of Muslims. They can't all be terrorists though a few notorious ones in the news came from it. They joined ISIS. I visited a mosque on an open day where there were people from all over the world who had converted to Islam. Some were white & a few oriental. They weren't all from Pakistan, Turkey, north Africa. or the Middle East. I loved the camaraderie between the women that you never find in churches or the secular world where other women are seen as 'wing men' to go clubbing with & once you get your man to then dump your female 'friends'. Yes it happened to me. The same camaraderie is also found in Hindu temples & Buddhist groups but not to the same extent. Muslims worship in separate rooms by sex. In Hindu temples they worship together but men on one side of the room and women on the other side of the room.
@victoriaroberts7034 Жыл бұрын
Yeah my boss is a Muslim lady so kind and caring💓 It really angers me as well when people try to make out all Muslims are terrorists
@warlordofbritannia Жыл бұрын
It’s really disgusting the whole caricature of Muslims in this book-smelly, rat-like, generally unhygienic, dangerously subversive by their mere presence…it reminds me of Nazi propaganda about the Jews.
@victoriaroberts7034 Жыл бұрын
@@warlordofbritannia I got exactly the same vibe, " The Muslim Problem" and tainted "Arian bloodlines" it's hideous
@warlordofbritannia Жыл бұрын
@@victoriaroberts7034 Tbf, I think that Aryan bloodline thing was meant to be wrong…I think 😂
@decolonial Жыл бұрын
9:54 as an indigenous person named cheyenne who was constantly called pocahontas as a child, i am ✨ triggered ✨ just super insulting
@esztiszep6334 Жыл бұрын
All FIVE dialects of Arabic 🤦♀️
@sergbastian5 Жыл бұрын
That cracked me up
@Sableagle Жыл бұрын
Near Eastern, Middle Eastern, Far Eastern, Asian and African?
@biseragjurovska1998 Жыл бұрын
One of the funniest parts of the book
@ernisato Жыл бұрын
@@Sableagle lol no. There's dozens and dozens of Arabic vernaculars not just five, whatever way you put it.
@michiganscythian2445 Жыл бұрын
Not to mention that Islam and the Koran promoted literacy, but I guess not literacy in the “correct” languages and alphabets 😒 Not to mention Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Turkey and other countries have sizable Christian populations
@ashleyblake4332 Жыл бұрын
Rachel, i love the maroon-magenta hair with the olive green shirt. That color combo works beautifully!
@adricsoti3719 Жыл бұрын
gods, i wrote better fanfictions when I was 14😭😭
@laurenwasinger9436 Жыл бұрын
“My Immortal” is a better fanfic…
@Emma-iv6ug Жыл бұрын
There really is no hate like Christian “love”
@user-bf8zc9eo1o Жыл бұрын
Michael Pearl looks like what if Santa Claus went to jail for domestic abuse, which is fitting, knowing what sort of books he and his wife write.
@juno3281 Жыл бұрын
the footnotes debi wrote about islam are very ironic. it sounded like she was describing the history of christianity to me- is she aware or…
@michiganscythian2445 Жыл бұрын
Apparently, Debi has never heard of secular Muslims
@emilyflood5041 Жыл бұрын
I'm so excited to watch this! I just watched your first video on the book a couple days ago and I was searching for a part two. Would you consider doing a review of books by Regina Doman, particularly "Rapunzel Let Down"? They are modern retellings of fairytales but they're very Conservative Catholic (and similar to these books). They have some crazy scenes that are antifeminist, have racial stereotypes, overt preaching, and so on.
@RachelOates Жыл бұрын
I’ll have a look if I can get any copies :)
@edvh88 Жыл бұрын
I’ve read a lot of fairy tales retold, these sound disturbing & also interesting! Rachel, would love to hear you cover something like that.
@emilyflood5041 Жыл бұрын
@@edvh88 I was really into them as a teenager, in some ways I think they were well-written, but they also have some very weird beliefs injected into them.
@lolaartemis Жыл бұрын
@@RachelOates have you heard of Libby? Library app. Many participating libraries offer a lending card through the app. I have access to so many books.
@AVspectre Жыл бұрын
Very interesting! I wrote a thesis paper on queer fairytale retellings. Would be interesting to see this collection of Catholic-lensed retellings (was a hardcore approx 15-25yrs old).
@16poetisa Жыл бұрын
The poor dog. How traumatized it must have been after all those experiments 😢
@adrianpetyt9167 Жыл бұрын
Writing backstories for incidetal characters can work. Kurt Vonnegut used to do it a lot to make the point that there are no lead characters an supporting cast in real life, everyone has their own story to tell. Of course, it does help if you can write plots as interesting an characters as sympathetic as Kurt Vonnegut could.
@mitochondria558 Жыл бұрын
The "to train up a child" movement ruined my family's life.
@webofstarlight Жыл бұрын
I can relate 😕
@AVspectre Жыл бұрын
I hope you both heal from the impact of that cruel book on your childhood. ❤
@comradeRat854520 сағат бұрын
Same. I have some pretty intense PTSD from my parents following that book. The Pearls are vile people and I hope they get everything they deserve someday.
@axolotl195 Жыл бұрын
I looked on Amazon for this book just to see what the reviews were and to my horror it had overwhelmingly positive reviews. That's really worrying.
@hellepost1439 Жыл бұрын
Joseph & Sonya Smith / Gwen Shamblin🚩🚩🚩
@shael3794 Жыл бұрын
I think Debbie may be going for the 'vitriolic best buds' trope with Hope and her friends, she just doesn't understand how to write it. The "we like to bicker/banter but underneath it all we're ride or die" sort of thing. But what she doesn't get is that there isn't actual malice behind it. Usually, it's a manifestation of characters who care deeply about each other but have trouble expressing their emotions. Then again, realizing this requires a minimum of media literacy and that's something I no longer expect of people with Debbie's beliefs.
@princessinmittens4783 Жыл бұрын
the messed up thing is people look up to this woman and follow everything she tells them. thats so scary. so many women are being abused and abusive and dont even realize it. this is very bad. thank you for showing this to me.
@CalloohCalley Жыл бұрын
As a native American I can say, we say Indian all the time. But when a white person says it, it just sounds... weird?
@michiganscythian2445 Жыл бұрын
I love how supposedly this small Washington town is supposedly overrun with Muslims and is under Sharia law but meanwhile Dearborn, MI which has the largest Arab population outside of the Middle East still has Christian churches, places that sell pork and I have photos of me in Dearborn a few years ago wearing a tank top and shorts and eating a bratwurst. Also noticed the unfortunate implication that the baby that Magdalena would have had was a mixed race baby, like it made it less bad
@rivendells_shona Жыл бұрын
Me, originally from WA: *giggles* Clearly the Pearls have never heard of Ramtha. What a strange choice of state to make a town “overrun” by Muslims be a point of concern. It’s not exactly a conservative state. 😂
@zachreads Жыл бұрын
This is the kind of book that makes me wish "the plot" was a place to bury it.
@edvh88 Жыл бұрын
You made me LOL 😊
@zachreads Жыл бұрын
@@edvh88 Thanks! I'm glad somebody appreciated it lol
@SilveryBlue1010 Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣
@vinespider9440 Жыл бұрын
ok that was really clever lol
@gunjantripathi9271 Жыл бұрын
Everytime people call native Americans "indian" I being an Indian just laugh out loud 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@edvh88 Жыл бұрын
Isn’t it wild! And it’s all because of one foolish man’s confusion about the size of the globe. It’s pretty ridiculous. I hope the Indians now on the continent and Native Americans can laugh about this confusion together!
@LakinMae5 Жыл бұрын
Thanks, Columbus!
@isfpoisson Жыл бұрын
I just want to say that, as a Christian, it is so incredibly frustrating and disappointing to see people represent Christianity in this way. This is not the ideology that the Bible teaches.
@cosmicsatan2046 Жыл бұрын
Ive been binging your content the last few days, and I've notice you say you try to leave personal judgments or attacks out of your critiques- and then go on to make them. And honestly thats relatable.
@i361x3 Жыл бұрын
Omg yeees, a two hour Rachel video 😊
@happymaskedguy1943 Жыл бұрын
Hi Rachel, just thought I’d say thanks for the content, and I hope you’re happy and doing well at the moment.
@ambds1975 Жыл бұрын
I am intrigued by the miracle jam; are we sure this lady isn't starting an MLM?
@RachelOates Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@rc31802 Жыл бұрын
That makes sense!
@lauriechan1426 Жыл бұрын
Plot twist: the 'herb den' was an herbalife nutrition shop all along 😂
@homohawk Жыл бұрын
@@lauriechan1426LMAO
@RiaJaize Жыл бұрын
Oh dear, this book has lived in my head ever since I watched your other video. But only bits of it -- I forgot so much of the weirdness. I love the fact that they plan to market their miracle jam exactly as they assume Big Pharma does with their medicines.
@Jdeadevil Жыл бұрын
The "creepy man in the bushes" photo stereotype is hilarious.
@homohawk Жыл бұрын
It kinda looks like Michael Pearl lmao. Woops
@Julie.Steam7 Жыл бұрын
Listening to your videos like an audiobook, it's very entertaining! Also your make up looks perfect
@nahnahb7753 Жыл бұрын
I can’t explain it, but Debi’s writing gives me the same energy as Chris-chan’s Sonichu comics (minus the action)
@RFEM520 Жыл бұрын
At least Sonichu has characters who are decent people compared to this.
@QJ89 Жыл бұрын
The comic Yancy looks at reminds me of a Chick Tract, as does this book overall. Also, was he meant to say "American Journey"?
@SairynadeX3 Жыл бұрын
Love your videos, love your makeup, love your gracing us with not having to read this
@nathantew946 Жыл бұрын
We should have a Bigot bingo card to go with this book.
@tiredmrp Жыл бұрын
I just....I'm so tired. I appreciate you being able to hold it in enough to even look at this yhe first time, let alone to look at it again. This is gonna be one that i take in sections...
@kannakanina6552 Жыл бұрын
I feel like Ms. Pearl’s book is just an excuse for her to take people on an incoherent acid trip touring her subconscious…. Yet I’m more befuddled and horrified than I want to admit.🤨
@OxundHeiner Жыл бұрын
MRS.!!! how horrible if she weren’t married at HER age 🫠 entering the matrix in which she seems to live melts my brain.
@mikelpelaez Жыл бұрын
For a second that book in the thumbnail appeared to be the book by prince Harry.
@inotanzen Жыл бұрын
i just started but your cardigan is EVERYTHING omg i am obsessed. your style is so cute comfy, i love it 🤍
@stephaniesaslut12616 Жыл бұрын
Very contradictory how she won't swear yet she feels so comfortable writing hate language, stereotypes and blatant disregard of people's religion and many other anti everything. So interesting how a person won't do 1 thing yet the thing they will do is 1,000% worse than the 1st. Makes me wants to pick their brains.
@HeiwaTori Жыл бұрын
@1:17:50 Rachel talking at Debbie like she's a misbehaving pet is my favorite genre of Rachel
@bumblingxbee Жыл бұрын
Suuuure she heard her fetus cry within the womb…surrounded by amniotic fluid 😂 it’s scientifically impossible 😂😂
@cretancaptainidomeneus534 Жыл бұрын
54:40 Note here how a hatred for Israel is automatically equated with anti-Semitism. Very common in Christian circles, absolutely ridiculous.
@vakarebaranauskaite6691 Жыл бұрын
If you can imagine the scream i let out when i saw the title, please double it. I love this series
@laurenwasinger9436 Жыл бұрын
I think “American Joiney “ magazine was supposed to be a New York accent of American Journey. In the 1930’s. With a pork pie hat.
@theartistswings9810 Жыл бұрын
You know thus cheered me up a bit. Thanks debi for publishing this as you helped me realize no matter how shit my own book might be it can’t be the worst one out there.
@personofthetao Жыл бұрын
Anyone else get the feeling that the reason Debi speaks so much about how attractive Shianne is, because her husband, Michael, is a child predator that probably makes Debi feel bad for being older and less attractive? Either that or Debi says that to herself, because she feels that Michael is her purpose and she thinks that this makes her not good enough.
@ms.annthropic6341 Жыл бұрын
I think my favourite part of this is that Debi will happily toss out every racist/sexist/homophobic/anti-Semitic/etc slur she can think of, but if anybody swears she feels compelled to communicate it the way they would in the comic section of a Sunday newspaper. Also, Debi is definitely gay - doubt she knows that though. The way she writes women, and describes marriage, reminds me of some things I’ve heard old nuns say about how “God created women for men and it’s our duty to serve them in marriage so you have to do it because it’s what god wants from you. If you had the real choice of who to marry all women would just marry each other because women are prettier and smell good and are soft and nicer to spend time with… We marry men and serve them and bear children for them because it’s the duty god gave us!”
@caseycronan9217 Жыл бұрын
Oh, if only you had been an editor of this work before it was published… also the conversations about diluting the miracle jam to sell more is villain behavior, so for a while I was confused as to who was the protagonist.
@zeMusicluver Жыл бұрын
My parents have the Good and Evil book, I'm ashamed to say. Unsurprisingly, with Michael's tendency to violence, he really honed in on it--heavy emphasis on any blood and gore they could possibly find. The comic basically looks like if Hollywood decided to take on a gritty reboot version of the Bible. My parents should not have let me just casually flip through it as a child. 🙃
@ethannettles2369 Жыл бұрын
Deconstructing Christian here. 👋I've too had both the black and white book and a few of the in-color booklets, and I too am ashamed to say that now that I know what their writers are like as people. I've flipped through the black and white one so many times that the pages are falling out. As a properly brainwashed, Christian child who knew nothing of the real world outside of the church doors and my Mom's and Dad's worldviews, I loved those books. Nowadays, they're proudly in my closet (I think, not even sure I still have them honestly😂), somewhere, collecting dust because I haven't touched them in over 10 years. . . and I have no intention of picking them up again, as an example of what any person (especially Christians) should be doing with their 'work', aside from spending the money to have it in the first place. I have to say, my Dad truly loved me and raised me the best he could, but he buys into the whole 'videogames will turn you violent' bs old-school preachers and conservative commentators spew, and I find it ironic he let me read those books for how violent they were and allowed me to watch Godfather and old Spaghetti Westerns, but God forbid I pick up Halo or GTA, or play DND because it might turn me cray cray. 🙃
@aspen1713 Жыл бұрын
100% thought the creepy photo of the skinny old man was Debi's husband
@comradeRat854520 сағат бұрын
Omg yes, I was like “that is creepy, looks just like Michael Pearl. Ew.”
@peskycritter79 Жыл бұрын
I loved hearing your dog foraging in the background 🐕
@lycan4312 Жыл бұрын
My great grandfather was muslim so this book saying all muslims are terrorists makes me livid
@MoreEriksson Жыл бұрын
I could probably write a short essay on everything wrong with the delivery scene, it's insane. Most egregious: the idea that a layperson could insert their (gloveless 🤮) hand into the vaginal canal during active labor and then somehow be able to maneuver their fingers around the baby's head, which isn't even crowning yet, to remove a nuchal cord; too fictional for fiction. Unless Cheyenne was described as having hands built like E.T. and Rachel just didn't mention that.
@LattePunch Жыл бұрын
On the abortion thing yeah that pretty much applies everywhere. Unless the baby is still born or has caught a disease that would kill both parties if not treated no doctor would approve of an abortion that late. That's just really dumb fear mongering.
@bigsad4372 Жыл бұрын
as an israeli, it's so fucking funny seeing tourists get scared when seeing the phrase allahu akbar anywhere because it literally means praise god, like imagine some christian says praise the lord and people start running away
@thistley_42 Жыл бұрын
1:55:29 given the horrendous costs and barriers in the US health care system a poor woman not having received adequate/any pre-natal care is one of the few things in this book that does sound believable