Saw a group of about thirty campers (ages 7-9) in Bible camp shirts down by the monuments today...What are your thoughts on this?
2007-04-29 14:15:59 · 20 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I didn't really stick around to see if it was an extremist camp or not...
And I'm in DC so I was at the WWII memorial...
2007-04-29 14:26:28 · update #1
Hey, however you want to teach your children aabout the Bible is great. At least they'er growing up with an apperciation of it. That's moer than a lot of kids lately.
2007-04-29 14:20:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I was sent to Bible camps frequently in my youth (at least after I got adopted by Fundamentalists). Actually, though, I do have some good memories of those camps. Some aspects of the camps were strange (the movies about hell, the constant preaching, being asked every 15 minutes if I were saved, having to wear odd-looking swim gear because swimsuits were deemed immoral, and so forth), but in other ways, I do remember having a pleasant time.
2007-04-29 14:24:14 · answer #2 · answered by thaliax 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I*m 100% for it....the only real difference in a Bible camp and regular camp is that God is brought into the daily activities...some of these children are exposed/introduced to the word of our Father for the first time. They learn/memorize bible verses, have bible study, sing songs, and pray. Along with normal camp type activities...swimming, canoeing, hiking, etc...the purpose of everyone wearing the same shirt when going out of camp is so that they are easier to recognize and keep up with...so that noone gets left behind when they return to camp.
2007-04-29 14:28:46 · answer #3 · answered by lonely needing friends 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Depends. A lot of them are like every other camp, except with Sunday school every day. It could be a lot worse. It's not like regular camp isn't an overregulated, quasi-fascist enterprise anyway.
And the number of people I know personally who got their first action at junior high/high school bible camp has to be in the double digits.
Remember that bible camps reflect the churches that sponsor them pretty accurately. The DoC camp I went to one year was basically "Jesus loves you, let's do macrame and sing Peter Paul and Mary". The Methodists ran an ordinary, efficient camp. The church that sponsors the camp in 'Jesus Camp' probably reflects that particular camp's values.
2007-04-29 14:26:04 · answer #4 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It makes me proud to live in a country that cherishes religious freedom. Parents have a natural right to educate their children in their own traditions, which includes sending them to a camp that espouses beliefs with which they agree. Naturally I'm bothered by the hate that is taught by extremist groups--planting seeds that might one day evolve into violence against homosexuals, "unbelievers," and people of other faiths,--but I have no way of knowing what kind of camp the tots you saw were attending. It may be that it was one of the good ones.
2007-04-30 03:33:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What kind of Bible camp? Do you mean the extremist Jesus camps or vacation Bible school. There is HUGE difference. And what monuments are you talking about?
2007-04-29 14:21:53 · answer #6 · answered by Linda R 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There are a lot of places that are far worse than a Bible camp! Thank God they are not hanging out with gang members, or in crack houses.
2007-04-29 14:31:00 · answer #7 · answered by gigiemilu 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I trust what you said and that i idea it grow to be very hectic too. and that i imagine it confirmed that those mom and father have both had similar indoctrination of their existence (in adolescence or adulthood) and are nevertheless in simple terms as scared and insecure as they were back then and that's the reason they deliver their youthful little ones to this stuff. That and to substantiate that their youthful little ones grow to be precisely what they (the mummy and father) imagine is ideal, no longer their very own human being yet what they must be: constructive obedient slaves. To them the mummy and father and to the perfect sky daddy/tyrant aka god. God the perfect omnipresent babysitter. the significant lesson from the movie for me grow to be that for some human beings the worst element is ambiguity and shortage of self belief and they are keen to do something and to resign any(each and every)element for this sense to flow away.
2016-11-23 15:56:44 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I find it to be absolutely pathetic especially since some camps such as Ted Haggard's teach these kids that they are Christian Warriors and whatnot.
2007-04-29 14:25:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Bible camp is a legitimate christian excuse for getting rid of the kids for a while.
2007-04-29 14:22:20 · answer #10 · answered by Rosebee 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋