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February 19, 2007
jesus camp
I just watched the documentary, Jesus Camp. My thoughts are in the extended entry. It's very, very good.
Becky Fischer scares me. Really, truly, to the core of my being scares me. She is blatant about indoctrinating (she's OK with that term) children about giving their lives to Christ. She is shown using toys and things kids will find as fun to get her message across to them. Two quotes from her that leave me cold:
"It's no wonder, with that kind of intense training and discipling, that those young people are ready to kill themselves for the cause of Islam. I wanna see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I wanna see them as radically laying down their lives for the Gospel as they are over in Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places, you know, because we have... excuse me, but we have the truth!"
and
"I can go into a playground of kids that don't know anything about Christianity, lead them to the Lord in a matter of, just no time at all, and just moments later they can be seeing visions and hearing the voice of God, because they're so open. They are so usable in Christianity."
*blink*
USABLE
*blink*
Another scene that chilled me to the bone: an eight year old telling us how there are "death churches" out there where god really isn't attending. "Those people are in their church, they sing three songs and then listen to a sermon. That's not god. You need to uplift your arms and get excited." So, hey, those of you who are Christians but not Evangelicals? Go screw yourself, basically.
Mike Papantonio is the sane, Christian voice interlaced throughout the documentary. He even confronts Becky at the end and she still doesn't get it.
Watching these children listening to an anti-abortion speech and then being handed out fetus dolls, red bracelets and having a red tape with "LIFE" written across it put across their mouths is frightening.
Oof. It's a powerful film. Disturbing. Very, very disturbing.
Posted by jennj at February 19, 2007 06:29 PM


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