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

Who should I be bigoted against? Debi: yes

"The Herb Den" sounds like it should be a weed dispensary or an Amsterdam style coffee shop.

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

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.

Debi Pearl sounds like she has written more books than she read.

I need to be so real right now these descriptions of girls from Debbie sound incredibly homoerotic

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. :)

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!

The way Debi writes women reminds me of the way I wrote women before I realized I wasn't heterosexual, lol.

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.

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 🙃

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

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.

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.

"there's no muslim solution" Debi activating my German red flags here... this sounds familiar.

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.)

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.

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.

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?

Man, I've never seen a woman write in such a "men writing women" Way

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. 😂😂

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...

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."

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.

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

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.

The way the text and characters treat Magdalene is absolutely appalling and abhorrent. These cruel, cruel people!!!

“All five dialects of Arabic” wow. As someone who studied linguistics, just.. ugh 💀

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

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

This book sounds utterly bizarre. Thank you for reading this so we don’t have to. Also the sweater you have is adorable.

Yet another case of "A Christian makes all other Christians look like ignorant assholes" 😑😑 If I cringed any harder I'd have an aneurysm

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 (?).

If I ever feel insecure about my own writing I’ll just watch this and know it could be so much worse.

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

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

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🤣

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.

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.'

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.

Debi is a narcissist. She could never handle an editor! Constructive criticism? Critique? Suggestions?! The gall! Debi is perfect 😂😂

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

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?

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.

9:54 as an indigenous person named cheyenne who was constantly called pocahontas as a child, i am ✨ triggered ✨ just super insulting

All FIVE dialects of Arabic 🤦‍♀️

Rachel, i love the maroon-magenta hair with the olive green shirt. That color combo works beautifully!

gods, i wrote better fanfictions when I was 14😭😭

There really is no hate like Christian “love”

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.

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…

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.

The poor dog. How traumatized it must have been after all those experiments 😢

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.

The "to train up a child" movement ruined my family's life.

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.

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.

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.

As a native American I can say, we say Indian all the time. But when a white person says it, it just sounds... weird?

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

This is the kind of book that makes me wish "the plot" was a place to bury it.

Everytime people call native Americans "indian" I being an Indian just laugh out loud 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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.

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.

Omg yeees, a two hour Rachel video 😊

Hi Rachel, just thought I’d say thanks for the content, and I hope you’re happy and doing well at the moment.

I am intrigued by the miracle jam; are we sure this lady isn't starting an MLM?

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.

The "creepy man in the bushes" photo stereotype is hilarious.

Listening to your videos like an audiobook, it's very entertaining! Also your make up looks perfect

I can’t explain it, but Debi’s writing gives me the same energy as Chris-chan’s Sonichu comics (minus the action)

Love your videos, love your makeup, love your gracing us with not having to read this

We should have a Bigot bingo card to go with this book.

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...

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.🤨

For a second that book in the thumbnail appeared to be the book by prince Harry.

i just started but your cardigan is EVERYTHING omg i am obsessed. your style is so cute comfy, i love it 🤍

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.

@1:17:50 Rachel talking at Debbie like she's a misbehaving pet is my favorite genre of Rachel

Suuuure she heard her fetus cry within the womb…surrounded by amniotic fluid 😂 it’s scientifically impossible 😂😂

54:40 Note here how a hatred for Israel is automatically equated with anti-Semitism. Very common in Christian circles, absolutely ridiculous.

If you can imagine the scream i let out when i saw the title, please double it. I love this series

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.

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.

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.

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!”

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.

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. 🙃

100% thought the creepy photo of the skinny old man was Debi's husband

I loved hearing your dog foraging in the background 🐕

My great grandfather was muslim so this book saying all muslims are terrorists makes me livid

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.

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.

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

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