What do you think of "Jesus Camp"?

Question

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Should we be indoctrinating kids with beliefs about abortion and politics when they're too young to understand such complex issues?

Seems the right will stop at nothing to force the world into their little boxes of beliefs.....

Answer 1

i'm not sure what is the best way to answer this question, however, i did stay at a holiday inn express last night!

Answer 2

Personally I would rather a little kid not know what these serious issues are. I would rather not burden them and just let them be a kid. I would rather not tell a little kid what an abortion is unless they ask or have a need to know. I do not belive in hiding things from kids, but I really do not believe in overloading them and shoving complex ugly info down their thoats either. I do not want them to get wierd mis information like kids did in the past about strange ways that babies came from. I just think kids of today have to worry about so much stuff and why burden them.

Answer 3

This is an issue of religion, not of politics, and every time you dignify the correlation of the two you validate it. I know it's hard but we've got to be bigger than that.

It's never healthy to teach children that a wizard in the sky hears their thoughts and doesn't want them to think certain thoughts: some very natural and some just matters of decency. It's hard enough to persuade kids to be fair and civil without gumming up the works with "blind faith" -- which under no circumstances would a parent otherwise advise a child to have: not in strangers, not in their sex partners, not in any ideology.

The problem with what people saw was that they knew, even on a subconscious level, that grinding it in that far was seriously overstepping some human bounds.

Answer 4

Children shouldn't be forced to go to Jesus camp, but if they want to, it should be allowed. Many children are very spiritual and starting at an early age to teach them about your faith is important. The public schools indoctrinate them.

Answer 5

"That is a protestant baby. This is a Hindu baby. That is a Muslim baby. This baby thinks there are many gods. That baby is adamant that there is only one. But it is preposterous that we do this to children. They are too young to know what they think. To slap a label on a child at birth - to announce, in advance, as a matter of hereditary presumption if not determinate certainty, an infant's opinions on the cosmos and creation, on life and afterlives, on sexual ethics, abortion and euthanasia - is a form of mental child abuse."- Richard Dawkins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins

Answer 6

Whatever values you have, if you're going to have kids, you're going to pass them on to kids, including by having them go to a particular camp. There are camps for children of Pagans, New Agers, and atheists, too. There are camps for various cultures.

That said, those other children will be exposed to other beliefs.

I hope these children are, too.

And I intend to see the movie.

Answer 7

thats some scarey sh*t! i mean, im all about kids believing in jesus but that camp looks scary, seems like a cult or something, thats so wrong to introduce kids to abortion and politic issues so young.

Answer 8

I'm going to see it tomorrow. On the way, I plan to stop by the airport and pick up a vomit bag. =)

Answer 9

We prefer Santa Claus and religious myths when they are young.

Answer 10

Heil Hitler!


Seriously, I wonder if they took lessons from the Nazi regime on this camp.