them so hard that it hurts, that they cause physical pain. they call it spiritual spanking. they believe it s god s will. lid gentleman shatz was just seven years old when she was beat ton death in the name of god. she allegedly mispronounced a word during a home schooling session. that was her so-called sin. the phrase death by 1,000 lash, . that s basically what this was. lydia s parents pleaded guilty and were sent to prison. but michael pearl, the man whose teachings they followed, is still spreading his gospel. through a popular christian parenting book he wrote with his wife to train up a child . apparently more than 1 million copies have been sold. the pearls wrote it as a blueprint for raising children they say the way the bible commands. it says that if you spare the rod, you hate your child. but if you love him you chasen him timely. the pearls say not to blame for what the shatzs did but spare the rod, spoil the child is a message that many fundamentali