ok so i watched it last night for the first time. i kept waiting for something really horrible, but it never came. i spent several years in the baptist and then pentecostal church so this was commonplace stuff for us. i left the church about 4 years ago altogether. the thing is, i kept hearing that at this camp they are training 6 year olds for war. the fact is when they are talking about warfare and being a soldier, they are talking about spiritual warfare .do people really dont get that? the dramas too are common in evangelical churches, the face paint and costumes...yeah thats all over.i guess...even though i dont ascribe to what these people beleive anymore, i certainly wasnt appalled by jesus camp. they are teaching children what they consider to be truth.
2007-10-17 06:10:06 · 14 answers · asked by dali333 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
so, apparently instilling ones personal beleifs into thier children=brainwashing.
btw, i have 2 brilliant teenagers. as i said,we are no longer in the church.i got to the point that i didnt buy alot of it. BUT, that dosent mean that others dont have the right to thier beleifs, and to instill those beleifs into thier kids.
2007-10-17 06:20:39 · update #1
The children she was "guiding" into the faith were not her children.
I have a problem with anyone who believes in fear based conversion into their religion.
Children do not have enough knowledge of the world to dispute what an adult tells them, this is why it is my belief that no one should be accepted into any religion who is not an adult.
As an adult you have had a chance, if you take it, to see the world and what is going on, children do not. When a child put their trust in an adult that the adult will be truthful, that's what they should get, and not just the truth as they consider it, the whole truth.
My fathers favorite phrase to me when I asked him things that he knew he didn't know the answer to was to say "Look it up". I don't recall the woman giving the kids at her camp that opportunity.
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2016-10-07 02:39:42 · answer #2 · answered by belvin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see nothing wrong with that. After all, I'm sure the parents and teachers of the 9/11 suicide bombers were simply teaching what they considered to be the truth and it was only a metaphor for "spritual warfare". Seems pretty reasonable.
2007-10-17 06:16:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
I think it was the part where they bowed to bush's cutout, screamed fanatically about defeating the devil and cheered about harry potter being burned at the stake. Perhaps it was the mindless repetition of the children, spewing out the same venom the adults did with an appalling fervor.
2007-10-17 06:13:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 11⤊ 1⤋
Thank God I left organized religions when I got to the age of reason (okay for me it was 14). I still subscribe to the tenet of: faith will move mountains; religions kill people. This is just another example. Eeek.
2007-10-17 06:55:42 · answer #5 · answered by Mama Otter 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No harm in brainwashing our kids? Nothing really horrible about wanting young kids to sacrifice themselves in the name of Jesus? Whoa, we have serious problems here peeps!
2007-10-17 06:54:48 · answer #6 · answered by firefairie 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
apparently you missed the part where beck fisher, the leader of the camp, says that she wants christians as radically giving up the lives for christianity as radical muslims are. i guess that was taken out of context though, huh?
edit: the exact quote goes...
"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! "
2007-10-17 06:18:09 · answer #7 · answered by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
brainwashing people with religion is a terrible idea and you are not bothered by it? If not, then something is wrong in how you think.
2007-10-17 06:16:53 · answer #8 · answered by Imagine No Religion 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not appalled by Jesus Camp? Surely you jest. This was child abuse.
2007-10-17 06:13:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 1⤋
Children praying to cardboard cutouts of GW Bush and being forced into near emotional breakdowns is HARDLY commonplace for me.
Please, for the sake of your children, do not have any...
2007-10-17 06:16:07 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 6⤊ 2⤋