Jesus Camp

athtrasna

Anyone see this on Channel 4 tonight? It was about Evangelical children in the US and a summer "camp" they attended. The kids featured seemed totally brainwashed/indoctrinated. It was scary. There were kids as young as 6 at the camp yet they made a huge thing about abortion.

The whole programme was very disturbing and to me was about child abuse!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

aye, thank god for secularism is all i can say.

Overdraft

It was the moment that mad lady said Harry Potter should die that I said to myself: uh oh.

orestes

I missed it, hoping to catch a repeat of it though. I've seen some clips and the whole thing does seem very freaky from what I've seen.

Anyone know if it's being shown again anywhere?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

it's on google video 24/7

am I allowed say that?

well, you'll probably see this before anyone who can edit my post does.

JIZZLORD

it's up on 4 on demand anyway!

Overheal

For the love of Binary! These threads are popping up everywhere.

Took them long enough to televise this: I saw first about 2 years ago.

Theres already a good thread in Christianity about it and one cropping up in Atheism.

edit: yeah mordeth the producers have released the documentary for free. You can watch/link/download etc. a google of Jesus Camp should have it pop right up.

There were kids as young as 6 at the camp yet they made a huge thing about abortion.

Despite the Pro Life attitude it gives their religion an expanding base of followers to work with. But I'll leave that debate for Humanities or forums unknown.

orestes

Fcuking hell, is this stuff real?! I'm only ten minutes in and this is freakier than any horror movie I've ever seen!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

it gets worse

orestes

Mordances with wolves wrote: »

it gets worse

I'm blaming you for telling me how I could watch it!

athtrasna

Sorry for starting another thread, I don't tend to venture outside a number of boards on here so wouldn't have gone near the religious boards.

As a TV programme the interesting stuff for me were the Oscar nomination and the fact that it's taken 3 years to televise over here.

As a sociological study it was scary. I'm not religious at all and that programme re-enforced why. If that little girl had come up to me in a bowling alley to tell me about God I would have told her where to go, or maybe called social services.

The pro life thing was deeply disturbing, the images and models they showed young children were designed to illicit an emotional response. And they capitalised on it.

The notes at the end of the show were a relief in part. If I'd lived in the US at the time I might have been tempted to join in with those who left their mark at camp littlewood

Overheal

I hear ya. I never come in here myself cos I dont do TV - I has internet

Robbo

athtrasna wrote: »

The pro life thing was deeply disturbing, the images and models they showed young children were designed to illicit an emotional response. And they capitalised on it.

As a quick aside, I had similar images and plastic baby models shown to me as part of RE in 5th year.

Mossy Monk

It really is frightening to know places like that exist. Pure brainwashing. I did think while watching that Levi kid will be in a tower some day shooting non believers below with a rifle.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Robbo wrote: »

As a quick aside, I had similar images and plastic baby models shown to me as part of RE in 5th year.

our RE teacher tried to do the same to us, but the girls revolted en masse. it was awesome.

User45701

saw it before, very good/scarey watch and ive been saying it for ages watch out mccain isent he one of them? we dont want one of them who is also a vet at the button