Jesus Camp

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Has anyone watched the documentary called Jesus Camp? I am curious to get other people’s thoughts about it!
 
I haven’t seen nor heard of the movie, so I went to IMDB.com to see character quotes. Every single one of these quotes is blasphemy; one of them is a subtle anti-Catholic jab.

Here’s the list of quotes:
imdb.com/title/tt0486358/trivia?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu

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  1. *“Becky Fischer: It’s no wonder, with that kind of intense training and disciplining, 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!”
  2. “Becky Fischer: And while I’m on the subject, let me say something about Harry Potter. Warlocks are the enemies of God! And I don’t care what kind of hero they are, they’re an enemy of God and had it been in the Old Testament, Harry Potter would have been put to death!”
    Crowd: “Amen!”
    Becky Fischer: “You don’t make heroes out of warlocks!”
  3. Levi: “I think Galileo made the right choice by giving up science for Christ.”*
:mad: The script is blasphemous and the characters seem corny. This movie, in all likelihood, is a waste of time and money.
 
I’ve seen it 3x,once while in an academic setting… And unlike many of my peers I did not find it repulsive. Sure the coverage is biased and slanted towards making Evangelical on fire Christians look bad. But I find it much harder to point exactly where the abuse is? Do we not as Catholic parents instruct our own children on the realities of sin, the need for repentance and a love of the Lord? The secular culture is brainwashing our youth much worse than anything done in this film… And I was proud of the kids who taped their mouths shut and stood outside the Whitehouse to protest against abortion (whereas my fellow “academics” found it abusive)

It is my belief that we, as Catholics, would do well to learn from the enthusiasm of these Christians and take our faith at least half as seriously as they do.
 
P. S. It is currently still on Netflix for interested parties.

I first encountered the documentary in a “religion and violence: oppression and hatred” course… Material that did not fit the bill in my mind
 
Faxero said:
:mad: The script is blasphemous and the characters seem corny. This movie, in all likelihood, is a waste of time and money.
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Since you haven’t seen the movie, I urge you to give it a try. It is an “unbiased view” (meaning it doesn’t lean towards being against or for the way these people raise their children). I was actually deeply disturbed by the way the children were being brought up. One of the boys, Levi, is a young boy with preaching aspirations. He is homeschooled by his mother and is taught only the creationist point of view. All of the children are taught from an early age that in order to feel the Holy Spirit they must speak in tongues. The children sobbed and cried into the mircophone during some type of sermon for a better country. This type of emotional uproar is unfair to their mental well-being. A child can be thirsty for God without being emotionally drained!

I find it inappropriate that children were instructed to protest abortion outside the White House with tape on their mouths. I also find this act manipulative - to those observing the protest and towards the children. The children aren’t allowed a voice and are told what to believe.

I think showing children images of unborn babies and discussing the issue with them is also inappropriate. LET THEM BE CHILDREN. Why do we have to bombard them with the issues of the world at such a young age? Let them grow peacefully into adults and make appropriate choices on their own. Chances are, if you’re raising them right, they’ll grow up with strong morals. If they want to protest as adults, that is their right.

I also noticed a level of intolerance for other religions or beliefs among both the adults and the children receiving the education. This just lead me to believe that the Evangelical groups in the documentary had an underlying agenda to gain some sort of political power (not sure if this is the case, but it sure felt like it!).
 
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Since you haven’t seen the movie, I urge you to give it a try. It is an “unbiased view” (meaning it doesn’t lean towards being against or for the way these people raise their children). I was actually deeply disturbed by the way the children were being brought up. One of the boys, Levi, is a young boy with preaching aspirations. He is homeschooled by his mother and is taught only the creationist point of view. All of the children are taught from an early age that in order to feel the Holy Spirit they must speak in tongues. The children sobbed and cried into the mircophone during some type of sermon for a better country. This type of emotional uproar is unfair to their mental well-being. A child can be thirsty for God without being emotionally drained!

I find it inappropriate that children were instructed to protest abortion outside the White House with tape on their mouths. I also find this act manipulative - to those observing the protest and towards the children. The children aren’t allowed a voice and are told what to believe.

I think showing children images of unborn babies and discussing the issue with them is also inappropriate. LET THEM BE CHILDREN. Why do we have to bombard them with the issues of the world at such a young age? Let them grow peacefully into adults and make appropriate choices on their own. Chances are, if you’re raising them right, they’ll grow up with strong morals. If they want to protest as adults, that is their right.

I also noticed a level of intolerance for other religions or beliefs among both the adults and the children receiving the education. This just lead me to believe that the Evangelical groups in the documentary had an underlying agenda to gain some sort of political power (not sure if this is the case, but it sure felt like it!).
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I am not sure if I would call it abuse, but homeschooling a child and only teaching them creationism seems wrong, instead of explaining other views and preparing them for the world. teaching intolerance wont end well either. They can parrot what they have been told but if they ever get a job in the real world or have to interact with people who are very different from them, they will not be able to actually argue and debate their beliefs. I imagine it would mess with their head being encountered with logic and reason and not having the tools to use the same. I have met young adults who really struggled with that transition.
 
Just a quick note, there is a bit of outright anti-Catholicism in the extras on the DVD. In the middle of the movie some of the kids attending the camp attend a sermon by Ted Haggard (Yes, that Ted Haggard.) They show a few minutes of the sermon and show the kids’ reaction to it. They also show where the kids meeting Ted afterward.

The extras show a part of the sermon left out where Ted is talking to the cameraman, asking him what his religion is. When the cameraman says he’s Catholic there are a few minutes where Ted makes several cracks at him.
 
I have found many Evangelicals to be very anti- Catholic. It is not often apparent at first but it is there.
 
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