Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Jesus Camp (the movie)

Jesus Camp is a documentary that covers a children’s ministry pastor & the summer camp that she runs in North Dakota. Becky Fischer is the featured Pentecostal children’s pastor. The movie is so disturbing because it portrays Evangelical Christians as ignorant, backwards, dogmatic, militant & just plain crazy. And the Christian adults are depicted as brainwashing young children to be an army that will take over the country politically.

I can only hope that people are smart enough to know that this is not an accurate representation of all Christians. And it’s probably not even an accurate representation of the people in the film.

What made this movie even more painful was that there was a kernel of truth to almost everything that was being preached. The kids were so cute & innocent & impressionable. I realized that most children are starving to receive any kind of attention from adults.

5 comments:

superdanch said...

Interesting. I actually wanted to watch this.

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Jin said...

Why are the censorship? These deleted comments always make me curious.

Reyes-Chow said...

Hey there! Saw your blog via KAMR site. We just showed Jesus Camp at our church and it was GREAT gist for the conversational mill. According to the JC website, everyone except Haggard felt like they were portrayed accurately. We too talked about the possibility that folks would think ALL Christians are like that, but overall most folks felt like most people would be able to differentiate. We can hope ;-)