Monday, February 12, 2007

Jesus Camp

This Oscar nominated documentary will probably not be strong enough to unseed Al Gore's Global Warming picture as the odds on favorite this year, but I would suggest renting it and giving it a looksee.

The peek you get into the brainwashing of children in the Evangelical religious sect is both disturbing and educational. Pastor Ted, the guy who in recent months was exposed as a homosexual, meth doing liar and hypocrite, got denounced and recently announced that he was now 100% heterosexual, even makes a small, telling appearance in this and it's probably the funniest part of the whole thing.

Some scary information I gleaned from this includes the tidbit that if Evanglicals (born again Christians like George W. Bush) choose to vote in any election, they can essentially pick the winner. And here's another one, 75% of all home schooled children are Evangelicals and they are all being taught that science is a fraud and creationism is fact. Yikes.

This is a camp like none that I've ever seen. Children are focred to repent things like Harry Potter and smash mugs with words written on them all in the name of the Lord Almighty. And this is before you get to set eyes on a very gentle looking 8 year old speak in tongues and cry relentlessly. Perhaps the scariest movie I've seen in the last year.

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