Jesus Camp ''Highlights''

[Major Nikon]

Jesus Camp is a 2006 documentary directed by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing about a pentecostal summer camp for children who spend their summers learning and practicing their "prophetic gifts" and being taught that they can "take back America for Christ."

[Doreen]

1. Abusive

This is revolting. This lady has little children crying and feeling bad about themselves for either believing in something else, not believing in the same thing as her, and for just being children. They are also being taught that not thinking for themselves is the right thing to to do. This is abuse plain and simple.

[Major Nikon]

3. It's an example of how any religion can be transformed into a cult

With any entity most would describe as a cult, they always target the weakest members of society for recruitment and ostracize anyone who dares to reject their belief system. So they target children and make sure they understand there are only two types of people in this world. That's why so many of them so aggressively want to influence public schools.

[safeinOhio]

2. Now kids, don't forget

if you don't sin, Jesus died for nothing.

[rug]

4. This is ten years old. Has something new prompted this post?

[trotsky]

5. Richard Dawkins was pummeled with attacks when he suggested...

that teaching kids hell is real and that people are punished there forever is a form of child abuse.

Funny thing is though, no one who attacked Dawkins for that could actually defend that teaching - they just spewed bile at Dawkins because they claimed he said "all religion is child abuse."

[rug]

6. What lessons did Dawkins learn as a child at Over Norton Park?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_Norton_Park

What lessons did he learn as the child of English imperialist officials ruling in Kenya?

Whatever they were, he retains them.

All privilege is child abuse, the abuse of others' children.

[Major Nikon]

7. The very best you can say about it is it teaches anti-intellectualism

It requires children to suspend their natural propensity toward critical thinking skills not just to brainwash them into embracing popular mythology, but requires them to assist in the brainwashing of other children.

Religion should be treated like cigarettes. If someone wants to partake as an adult can make that choice however ill advised. Someone who wants to force it on children should be ostracized, if not punished by society. The problem organized religion has is the same as cigarette manufacturers. If society restricts its initial distribution just to adults, market share goes way down.