On friday my friend and I rented Jesus Camp.........oh my!!!! Throughout the entire documentary our faces were scrunched up and brows furrowed in that sort of HUH???? & WTF is going on sort of way. It was all so very bizzare.
Children's Minister Becky Fischer runs an evangelical summer camp called "Kids on Fire" in Devil's Lake(tee hee), North Dakota. We are introduced to three children, Tori, Levi and Rachel. Inside the camp the children are often shown crying, speaking in tongues and are taught the evils of abortion and of course Harry Potter. They are taught to be better solidiers in the Army of God and at one point Fischer says that she would like fundamentalist Christians to show the same kind of devotion as fundamentalist Muslims. She denies brainwashing the children and the parents say that they do not force their children to love the Lord. It's funny though, at one point in the film Fischer asks her congregation "who loves the Lord?" and one woman forcibly raises her children's hands. Another young boy tells his friends at the camp that he does in fact watch Harry Potter at his father's house, something his mother does not allow. The faces of the children he tells are pricesless, looks of absolute shock and horror that he would watch such a thing. Don't even get me started on the lifesize cutout of George Bush that was placed infront of the congregation.......oh lord!!
I found the whole anti-abortion part very creepy, seeing young children(7, 8 & 9 year olds) with red tape on their mouths with the words LIFE in black marker. It's an interesting albeit disturbing documentary and worth a view if you have not seen it.In other news I completely broke down today in tears, full out sobbing like a 10 year old. I had been out all afternoon with a friend I had not seen in years. It was great to catch up and we had a wonderful visit. I headed to my car and my knee was absolutely throbbing, I could barely walk. This has been going on for far too long and I just lost it. I can't play volleyball, I can't go to my kickboxing class, I am going to Vegas in April and would love to hike the Grand Canyon and doubt that will be possible. The pills he gave me are not working and i'm still extremely swollen, sore and apparently feeling terribly sorry for myself. Luckily the Dr. will be going over my xrays with me this week and I will be seeing the surgeon in early April so hopefully I will have some idea of what the hell is going on. But yeah, i cried!!
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That is scary! I think it's bad enough that most parents raise their kids only knowing one religion (that of their parents), but it's even worse to see parents forcing this sort of crazy, fanatical behavior upon their kids who don't know any better. I had an experience as a child that I remember so well. There weren't many kids in my neighborhood - it was mostly older folk - and down the street there were these boy/girl twins my same age. I met them somehow and had a play date with them (I was maybe 5 at the time) while their mom and my mom chatted. Afterwards I told my mom that I really liked them and that they wanted me to come over to their house again and my mom started crying and told me I couldn't. I didn't understand it at the time. They went to private school and I never hung out with them again, although they lived down the street from me forever. Years later I asked my mother why she told me I couldn't play with them anymore and she told me that their mother had asked my mother what church I attended. My mom said that I didn't go to church and that they were going to let me pick my own religion when I got old enough to make an educated decision. At this point their mother said that her children would not be alloed to associate with such godless, uneducated riff-raff and forbid her children to ever speak to me again. I wonder what happened to her kids. I always felt bad for them.
Jesus Camp, Jesus Christ!
I'm glad I don't count myself as a religious person or I would be upset with this brainwashing.
Re: Jesus Camp Christians have as much right to vote as you pro-sodomite, pro-abortion babykilling, anti-Christian bigots like you.
SAY THIS PRAYER: Dear Jesus, I am a sinner and am headed to eternal hell because of my sins. I believe you died on the cross to take away my sins and to take me to heaven. Jesus, I ask you now to come into my heart and take away my sins and give me eternal life.
This is like child molestation. This is no better than the sick people who kidnap and molest children. You may think I am being melodramatic but the truth is that child molesters also think that something's wrong with the world. Sick!
I am sorry about your knee. I do so hope it gets better.
This reminds me of that movie "Saved" with Mandy Moore. It is hysterical, but there are actually some people like that.
You poor thing :( I hope your knee gets better. Try some homeopathic medicine called "arnica" It works wonders. They have it at health food stores. Try and get a high potency like 30C (not X) Hopefully that makes sense! lol
Only through faith in the Lord will your knee heal! Repent and watch the sweliing go down! Repent! Rid your knee of that vile Beelzebub! Repent I say, repent!
I hope you found that funny.
SS, it's interesting as sometimes rather than bring people together it pulls them apart, as in your case.
BB, i'm not particularily religious and i'm not down with the brainwashing at all.
Rev. Don Spitz, I agree we should all have a right to vote. I don't think that i'm particularily Anti-Christian, i'm just not sure how a 6 year old can grasp the concept of abortion or other such things. As well there are a few beliefs that I do not agree with.
Yrautca, a lot of people think that the world is sick and i agree to an extent.
Jlee, thanks for the tip, i'll look it up.
WIGSF, funny!
Dear Rev. Don Spitz,
If you're going to be in heaven, the I'd rather go to hell just so I don't have to be anywhere near you.
Sincerely,
A pro-sodomite, pro abortion Christian
Too bad about the knee. I know how you are feeling, it is pretty frustrating stuff.
Jesus Camp, well wow, I saw it as well and was in shock the whole time. Fundamentalist anything really freaks me out.
Scott
Jesus freaks kind of scare me...even more so than extremist Muslims as our (well, "my", since you're Canadian) enables that kind of fanaticism. I'm not anti-Christian, though. I actually don't think there's anything Christian about what these people do.
This scares me. Children can be taught to think or believe anything. That's how kids are brought up to hate other races, etc. So, if you are irresponsible as a parent, you could raise your kid to hate anything...like, let's say... cucumbers. Except it's not cucumbers and it's not just hatred. No, these kids are deprived of the option to make choices. They are given a pre-packaged set of beliefs, regardless of what is real or how they might feel if they were allowed to peek outside. These kids are taught they are better because they are saved. They are taught they must go out there and convince other people to believe in their invisible friend, denying the facts that are thrown in their face that prove them wrong. It is sickening.
-N
Actually, the only two movies I've seen recently were Jesus Camp and Blood Diamond... and, in some ways there are some very similar themes in both movies.
My favourite part of Jesus Camp was at the end when the children's pastor says that all those liberals out there should be quaking their boots - I looked at the two other people who were watching the movie with me and we all agreed that we were.
Ash, the knee thing is a bummer, I use Arnica when I hurt myself in skate practice, I don't know if homeopathic stuff is just a placebo or not, but totally unscientifically, I think the stuff helps. We're going to be a total pair of gimps in Vegas! Oh well, we'll probably fit right in. I'll push your wheelchair up to a slot machine and leave you there, you'll love it.
that's weird
i'm not against religion or anything like that, i beleve that people can do what they want to and believe what they want.
should i ever have kids they are welcome to look into all the religions and choose one that they feel offers them the most, i have no religion myself and i like it that way, although sometimes i feel as though i'm missing out on having something to believe in
I heard about that movie, and I think I got enough from your review that I can do without it. Scary indeed.
Sorry about your knee as it's frustrating as hell when your body won't cooperate, but if you're going over the x-rays this week then you should have a solution in place & then the healing can begin. Heal thyself Miss Ash. That last part sounded like the movie, didn't it?
I was thinking of adding this to my netflix. I enjoy watching documentaries and independent films, but have been putting this one off.
Hope your knee does get better and soon. If the pain starts up again think 'Jumpin Jesus on a pogo stick thank the lord in heaven I'm not one of those kids from 'Jesus Camp'.
Or you could drink heavily. I recommend the latter.
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