Baby Bible Bashers - UK doc on US child evangelist preachers

[reprehensor]

Run time: 10:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP-s3AV9Kzs   Posted on YouTube: February 18, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 08, 2008 By DU Member: reprehensor Views on DU: 1142

 
Whoa.

http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/C/cutting_edge/baby_bible_bashers/

Samuel Boutwell is a seven-year-old preacher. He takes his vocation to save sinners from rotting in eternal hell extremely seriously.
Most Saturdays he stands in front of his local abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi and, bible in hand, bellows:

'Don't kill your child! Repent! God loves the little children!'.

Baby Bible Bashers follows the extraordinary stories of three of the Lord's 'chosen children', and their relationships with God, their families and their congregations.

In addition to Samuel, we meet nine-year-old Florida firebrand Terry Durham, who likes nothing more than to don his oversize blue suit and alligator shoes, and whip the crowd into a frenzy. Terry holds the honour of having been the world's youngest ordained minister at just six.
Brazilian sensation Ana Carolina Dias began preaching at just three years of age and regularly commands TV audiences of millions. Her mission: to save the hardened gang members and drug dealers of Rio's shantytowns.

This film by BAFTA award-winning director Amelia Hann, follows these pint-size preachers as they go about their missionary work spreading the word to 'drunkards, adulterers and thieves' and uncovers the unsettling and often disturbing truth behind child evangelism.

[Twillig]

1. I think I just heard Marjoe Gortner slap his forehead in dismay.

poor kids.

[ikojo]

2. Wasn't Al Sharpton a child preacher?

This is what's dangerous about fundie Christianity, anyone can say they've been anointed by G-d and get people to believe that how THEY interpret the Bible is THE correct way.

Oy vey!!!

[sasquatch]

3. How is this not child abuse?

[ikojo]

4. Go to youtube.com and watch part 5 of 5 of

this report http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9PBb2ef4JM&feature=related. Samuel is in NYC with his zealot father when they are confronted about their preaching. Poor Samuel is sitting in his chair while his fanatic father continues preaching. Tears come out of Samuel's eyes and he says he wants to be with his mama.

The kid looks FREAKED out about being in NYC. What with the noise and all of the people, I cannot imagine what went through the mind of a little kid from small town Mississippi.