I am not really going to go too deeply into Jesus Camp, because it was just really disturbing on a lot of levels. We were mostly just horrified the whole time. I felt so sad for these kids, but it was really personal for me because I was raised in a pretty religious household, went to Catholic school for 10 years, had a lot of painful times as a child where so called "Christians" would tell me I was going to hell because of the beliefs that had been drilled into my head... this subject is a bit of a sore one for me. I understand that the woman running the camp firmly believes she is saving souls. I don't think she's a bad person. I just think she's twisted and cruel in the way she goes about trying to force these kids to be "soldiers" for Christ. Although she thinks she's doing it for their own good, she doesn't give any room for them to explore their own relationships with God - it's her way or the highway. Her sermons are very fire and brimstone, and watching children "speak in tongues" is just scary on every level. Brandon thought the scariest part was the insistence by the fundamentalists that we need to remove the separation of church and state because that would be the only way to combat our fundamentalist enemies like the fundamentalist Islamics. His final word: "I just really want to forget that movie as much as I can."
Interesting movie but we wouldn't recommend it.
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