What do you think of the film Jesus Camp? (An article is at www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/41670 )?

Question

Here's the link to a blog (not one of mine) I saw about it: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/41670/

Will we ever find balance in this world and stop subverting the truth? (Hmm, maybe that should have been my question ...)

Answer 1

Of COURSE... fight Islamic religious extremism with Christian religious extremism! It's so simple...

Answer 2

I actually saw this story on GMA this morning.

Personally, I find the whole thing disgusting and creepy, and I'm an active, believing Christain. It embarasses me that people see these fanatics (and that's what they are) and think this is how all Christians act. We don't.

I think the people that run this camp are very manipulative and just wrong in their teaching philosphy. I don't think this is how Christ would have taught. I don't see the people who listened to the Sermon on the Mount, crying, flailing about and beating their chests.

As Christians I believe it's our job to teach the words of Christ, but I also think more dignity should be given to the preaching of the Gospel. I also think that scaring little kids in this way is wrong and is just as bad as radical Muslims teaching that jihad is the way in their schools.

As far as finding the truth, I think everyone should be allowed to make their own decions on truth and how they live their lives. I think if we had this basic respect, many of the religous conflicts would go away and this would be a more harmonius earth.

Answer 3

It's strange. I was raised in a charismatic, fundamentalist, evangelical church, and after about seven years of consciously deprogramming myself, I am finally now able to look at Bible verses and see them in a new light--the same way I look at anything written in the Quran, the Book of Mormon, the Pali Canon, etc. (a large part of my thesis is in religious comparison, so I look at a lot of holy texts): As someone's holy book, not one I have any connection to, but a text like the others to be studied and learned from.

All that said...I look at this film trailer and I went through that same sort of thing myself. Not a camp, necessarily, but several years of nearly identical experiences in my own church. And all I can think of is how long it will take those kids to get over it, and how for many of them a lifetime will not be long enough.

Answer 4

Becky Fisher the leader of the "Kids on Fire" camp looks way more creapy than that movie. If you think the movie was slanted just look at her website. I think it is fair her website is much scarrier than the movie trailer just look at it. Oh it looks like she might have toned it down a bit since there is so much attention now, but look at the top stuff and look around her site and see if it is fair.

This is the main website link
http://kidsinministry.com/
Here is what "Fire" Stands for in their views
http://kidsinministry.com/FIRECenter/CoreValues.html
Just on the top gives us some of their own photos of what is going on.
http://kidsinministry.com/Current.PastEvents/index.html
Here is their leader aka listed as high priest Becky Fisher on link
http://kidsinministry.com/FIRECenter/JesusHighPreist.html

Answer 5

I think those people are totally creepy. However, I totally dislike the way that the filmmaker is trying to show conservative Christians in a bad light, like maybe we are all secretly like that.

Answer 6

I think it is about the same as terror camps. They are brainwashing children to be hate filled warriors.

Answer 7

I think that is the weirdest movie.


PS- Jesus is Jewish.