Jesus Camp

[Scurvy]

just watched it.
this is the most alarming and extremist video i've seen in a while.
(moreso than two girls one cup)

its a documentary about a church camp, where they're training little christian soldiers for the second coming of christ. Every awful stereotype about christian zealots that you can imagine are portrayed, and then some. the worst part is watching how these children are brainwashed. seeing adults speak in tongues makes me uncomfortable--seeing kids do it is a step further.

i think even your aveage bible thumper would agree that this is exceeding what is socially and politically tolerable.

that is all.

[Squeezer]

Yeah, the old fat lady is pretty nuts in that movie. The convulsion scenes were also pretty creepy...Especially how they almost encourage the kids to do so by showering them with praise.

[Money]

lol nice sig NOT

[Bioture]

i think even your aveage bible thumper would agree that this is exceeding what is socially and politically tolerable.

I respect the parents' rights to screw up their children like that.

Addendum: http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...&search=Search

It's a sign of the times.

[Scurvy]

I respect the parents' rights to screw up their children like that.

i respect a person's right to screw themselves up as much as they want, but that shouldnt extend to their children. the camp leader compared the children at the camp to middle eastern children being conditioned as suicide bombers from an early age. all i'm saying is its fucked up :fear:

[phata$$]

Yeah. It was really disturbing.

[Facetious]

I thought the documentary parts were okay but it really seemed like half the movie was lame music and shots out of the side of slow moving cars. It was a 45 minute long TV show masquerading as a movie.

I saw it after watching Louis Theroux's documentary on the Westboro Baptist Church and after the HBO documentary "Soldiers In The Army of God" both of which I thought were a lot better, but maybe by the time I saw Jesus Camp I was just sick of the formula, not sure.. Check them out if you liked Jesus Camp though. Same kind of shit but no filler, and Theroux's has some pretty funny moments in it. I know a lot of attention has been paid to those Westboro people since the VT shootings, but the documentary is still pretty interesting. I've never seen any of his other shit but he does a good job on this one.

[RednaZ]

You are a god! Louis Theroux, been wondering what his name was for aeons.

[Ephemeral]

Living in the bible belt, we see all kinds of nutty stuff.

Like sitting the 'un-saved' kids in the front row of the church and telling them that if something bad happened to their family, mom and dad would go to heaven while they did not. Needless to say, lots of 'saved' 6-7 y.o. kids around here.

[Ayano]

I honestly never thought that evangelicals comprised anything more than say 10% of the protestant religions. 25% of the nation? If they all voted, they would easily sway any election. Hell, hardly ≈180 million vote, and 25% of ≈300 million is roughly 75million. If they mobilized, they could push almost any candidate through. I smell Hukabee but I doubt it will ever come to that.

http://www.youtube.com/profile_video...&search=Search

for those of you wondering wtf we're talking about.

[Reaver]

From a very practical sense, it's nice to see children growing up with morals. Not that there's never going to be any kids that grow up in households like this that do something very bad, but the odds are against that. I'd rather live in a World where people have morals, even if they're somewhat institutional. Some of the things were super nutty, especially the guy talking about "raping the Earth" and just using things needlessly. Only watched the first 3 segments, I'll check out the rest later, so far it reminds me of what I've heard about Sicko--bringing about some truth as well as some dramatization.