Rent "Jesus Camp" doc.!! You'll want to reclaim the country for sanity!

[gauguin57]

If you haven't seen "Jesus Camp" ... you need to rent it IMMEDIATELY. I just watched it, and am sitting here stunned and appalled.

This documentary on the "let's train kids to take over America for Christ" camp run by Pastor Becky Fischer is nominated for an Oscar.

The film will make you sick for a solid 84 minutes ... but it's a really frightening eye-opener (waaay scarier than "Pan's Labyrinth"). Yes, we all know how evangelical kids are brainwashed (I went through a couple of years of such brainwashing as a teenager, so I recognize some of this stuff from personal experience). But it's just so interesting to see the techniques the holy-rollers use to whip these children into a crying frenzy. And to send them out to let themselves be "used" by evangelical Christianity (little kids witnessing to adults on the streets of D.C.).

See it for yourself. At first, you'll want to hide, shaking, in the closet and clutch the Constitution. Personally, I need to go take a shower now.

--- Spoiler-ish alert --- below are some of the things you'll see in the film (besides a now-HILARIOUS appearance by Ted Haggard, "before the fall"!):



The kids at Jesus Camp are given little plastic fetuses to hold (and told these babies never had the chance to fulfill the book God had already written for them). They're asked to raise their hands toward a cardboard cutout of President Bush and pray God's blessing upon him because "he's surrounded himself with godly advisors." You'll see them smashing mugs that represent the ungodly U.S. government that won't allow Christ to thrive in America.

You'll see homeschooled kids being told that science can't prove anything and that global warning is a myth.

The little pre-pubescent kids are forced to confront all the ways in which they've sinned, and water is poured over their hands as they sob and repent. A 10-year-old girl who likes to dance confesses to the camera that she has to dance for God; that she's guilty of dancing for the flesh way too often. (did I mention she's 10 years old?)

They're told Harry Potter is of the devil; no matter how heroic he is, he's a warlock, and warlocks are of the devil.

[itsmesgd]

1. too late, we're all nuts here

[Cerridwen]

2. In a 'normal' world,

I'd say they were culling the herd of competition for our children.

In this world...*sigh*

[JackintheGreen]

3. I was disappointed by it

I just saw it recently (within the last three weeks probably) and except for the giant * cutout NOTHING surprised me. I grew up surrounded by people just this side of jesus-crazy. It frightened me, but at the same time there was that christian radio host who seemed just as appalled by the fundies as most of us are. I still believe that there are more of that kind than the jesus-camp kind. The latter are only louder, and the louder the become the more people seem to just exactly realize how terrible (in the original sense) that kind of religion is.

And then, as a film, it just kind of drops you at the end. It left me flat rather than freaked, frightened, or angry.

[guruoo]

4. Ted Haggard in Jesus Camp...

:rofl:
"I think I know what you did last night"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6rSjrBhUIA

[meldroc]

5. Just saw it last night. It was available on Google Video

Dammit. I was going to send you the link, but looks like it was taken down...

All I can say after watching is Sweet Jesus, protect me from your followers!

[RebelOne]

6. It's on this Web site. Here's the link.

http://throwawayyourtv.com/2007/01/jesus-camp-doc-videoroll.html

[RedStateShame]

7. Saw it a few months ago. I've never wanted to shake the sense into a child, but...

Those poor, poor kids. I kept having to bite my tongue. So many things brought up recollections of my childhood after being dragged to my mom's church for 10+ years. Oh, why aren't there de-programmers that will work on that cult?