Jesus Camp

[Pulp Hero]

Split from here. ~S

(Epic Thread Necro)

Wow, I just watched this film and wow.

This movie is all the more disturbing in the modern context of the Obama presidency and the right-wing rage machine. These people are the face of the enemy, plain and simple.

I noticed that there are no black children in this film (likely the result of simple geography more than anything else) and that most of the families and kids would rarely if ever interact with a black person. Now try and picture the amount of fervor they had for the President Bush cutout. Now imagine how broken their brains are by a black president.

Also, I went to a private Christian school (in supposedly progressive Southern California) for most of elementary/some high school, and I am noticing a lot of similarities in attitudes from this movie. I had flashback to when the school held its weekly hour-long service during school hours in the gym, and the singing/arm raising/tears is all the same. And make no mistake, if you are a child in a place like that it is understood- You are allowed not to sing, but you will fucking sing. It is a disturbing culture that does require conformity, or the appearance of it. (BTW, any questions from the "inside" of something like this place?)

[Darth Lucifer]

Seeing this old thread pop up has made me want to watch this. I'm already four minutes into it and I'm shaking my head and saying WTF?

The irony of a woman that large preaching to children about fasting was amusing.

[Invictus ChiKen]

On a side note that camp closed soon after filming when someone sprayed graffiti on it. I guess "THIS MEANS WAR!" was all well and good till a counter attack came. Also the film is interesting to see now as the Evangelicals are a dying breed of Christian now.

[Ritterin Sophia]

Not that it really matters, but if you go back to the carboard Bush worshipping, you'll see one black child.

[Surlethe]

Seeing this old thread pop up has made me want to watch this. I'm already four minutes into it and I'm shaking my head and saying WTF?

The great thing about Jesus Camp is that fundamentalists will watch it and nod their heads, thinking that it's perfectly normal. My wife watched it, and she thought it was a fairly accurate representation of the fundamentalist youth culture (sans the speaking in tongues); I watched it, and thought it was generally crazy, except the speaking in tongues, which sounded normal to me.

[Surlethe]

On a side note that camp closed soon after filming when someone sprayed graffiti on it. I guess "THIS MEANS WAR!" was all well and good till a counter attack came. Also the film is interesting to see now as the Evangelicals are a dying breed of Christian now.

Evangelicals are a dying breed of Christian? Since when?

[Duckie]

Seriously, even if you don't count mormons in them (and mormons are brother to the evangelical movement), evangelicals are one of the few groups of christians that actually aren't losing members over time. They're in fact slowly growing, even as the average person grows more secularised (or perhaps because people are more secularised)

[SAMAS]

On a side note that camp closed soon after filming when someone sprayed graffiti on it. I guess "THIS MEANS WAR!" was all well and good till a counter attack came. Also the film is interesting to see now as the Evangelicals are a dying breed of Christian now.

Evangelicals are a dying breed of Christian? Since when?

Dying influence, we hope.

[Invictus ChiKen]

On a side note that camp closed soon after filming when someone sprayed graffiti on it. I guess "THIS MEANS WAR!" was all well and good till a counter attack came. Also the film is interesting to see now as the Evangelicals are a dying breed of Christian now.

Evangelicals are a dying breed of Christian? Since when?

Please understand I mainly hear this on Catholic boards so it could be wishful thinking. But here is one article Link

BTW for those like me raised around evans. Is it just me or was the girl that wanted to catch so many drops of rain on her tongue able to freak out her mother because it sounded superstitious, which equals occult like, which equals Wicca? (According to there logic.)

[Surlethe]

On a side note that camp closed soon after filming when someone sprayed graffiti on it. I guess "THIS MEANS WAR!" was all well and good till a counter attack came. Also the film is interesting to see now as the Evangelicals are a dying breed of Christian now.

Evangelicals are a dying breed of Christian? Since when?

Please understand I mainly hear this on Catholic boards so it could be wishful thinking. But here is one article Link

You're right, it is wishful thinking. There's no evidence at all in that blog post, just a series of assertions strung together. Evangelicalism is in decline because it has embraced the consumer culture? Please, that doesn't follow at all.