Jesus Camp

<p>Has anyone seen this movie, I’ve only seen the trailer and I’m freaking out. I’m a very strong Christian but I think this is crazy. </p>

<p>I want all non-Christians to know that this is not how Christians are, not even a little. These people in the movie are equal to the fundamentalists of Islam.</p>

<p>here's the trailer: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_EKHK1C2IE%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_EKHK1C2IE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPOanhfGX2c&mode=related&search=%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPOanhfGX2c&mode=related&search=&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Welcome to the wonderful world of evengelical Protestantism. :)</p>

<p>As a Catholic I am certainly not one of them, but in a way, part of me is happy to see large Christian movements like this still going on in North America. Mainstream society has become so bloody secularized and Godless over the past century that it has become unhealthy. What these people are doing is balancing the scales a bit. All the power to 'em.</p>

<p>As a Protestant Christian, what I've heard of this film disgusts me. Instead of learning Biblical verses and about the tenets of our faith, this Becky Fischer is telling kids how much they suck and leading them dangerously close to idolatry. Sad part is if you were to survey a lot of those kids and ask them who saved our souls, Jesus Christ or Bush, there would probably be some there who would reply with the latter.</p>

<p>Little does she know, her film is being used as propaganda to empower the left to further deny the Constitutional rights of any Christians and conservatives in general in America (David Limbaugh, it'll be time soon to write another book...).</p>

<p>"Little does she know, her film is being used as propaganda to empower the left to further deny the Constitutional rights of any Christians and conservatives in general in America..."</p>

<p>Oh, totally. This documentary is really nothing but a "scare" film for anti-Christian left-wingers.</p>

<p>Eh, believe what you want to. You'd be surprised at how many can't distinguish between the ideals that the leaders of this camp hold and those held by other Christians across America.</p>

<p>you have to get them while they're young. otherwise, they may learn to think on their own.</p>

<p>I can’t stand Christian radicals.</p>

<p>Radicals of any sort.</p>

<p>^Indeed </p>

<p>One ting I don’t get, is the speaking in tongue thing, what’s the deal with that</p>

<p>That trailer really freaked me out. They're brainwashing the kids. I mean, one said that he was saved when he was five because he, "wanted something more." Who wants, "something more" when they're five? When you're five you're usually worried about cooties and coloring and dinosaurs.</p>

<p>" Mainstream society has become so bloody secularized and Godless over the past century that it has become unhealthy."</p>

<p>Unhealthy?! How so?</p>

<p>I don’t agree with fides completely but,</p>

<p>a society without god is unhealthy </p>

<p>Government should be secular, were not good at mixing the gov’t and religion.</p>

<p>I'm not gonna lie, that freaked me out.</p>

<p>wayups right, christians are not like that at all!!!!!!!!!</p>

<p>I hope this movie dosen't scare people away from christianity.</p>

<p>I think I'd continue drifting away regardless. i don't like it but I have been.</p>

<p>"I hope this movie dosen't scare people away from christianity."</p>

<p>It is certainly designed to do just that. BTW, Vail, I wasn't being sarcastic at all in my last post -- based upon the trailer, and what I have read about the film, I really do see it as a liberal attack on Christianity, an anti-Christian propaganda piece about "those crazy Christians" designed to frighten secularists even further away from Christ and skew their view of the religion as a whole (let's get real, the people documented in this film represent a fraction of the Christians in the world). It is an attack film, a smear film, and a scare film. The evil Christians are taking over... RUN!</p>

<p>how is a secular society unhealthy?</p>

<p>"how is a secular society unhealthy?"</p>

<p>It's not that a secular society itself is an unhealthy thing. What is unhealthy is when nobody believes anymore. Most people don't go to church anymore, they don't pray, they don't seriously work on their spiritual development. As a person who sees great importance in all of these things, the lack of them means unhealthiness. In my view, it leads to negative things.</p>

<p>To further clarify, I believe in the separation of church and state. It is a good and healthy thing. But that does not mean that I think rampant Godlessness is a good and healthy thing.</p>

<p>"It's not that a secular society itself is an unhealthy thing. What is unhealthy is when nobody believes anymore. Most people don't go to church anymore, they don't pray, they don't seriously work on their spiritual development. As a person who sees great importance in all of these things, the lack of them means unhealthiness. In my view, it leads to negative things.</p>

<p>To further clarify, I believe in the separation of church and state. It is a good and healthy thing. But that does not mean that I think rampant Godlessness is a good and healthy thing."</p>

<p>How would it have a negitive affect on society? Do you think it will lead to an amoral society? As an atheist who (i feel) leads a very moral life I'd have to disagree with you. But I have noticed that in our society immorality is becoming more and more acceptable.</p>

<p>"But I have noticed that in our society immorality is becoming more and more acceptable."</p>

<p>Bingo. </p>

<p>My question to you: Where did this growing acceptance of immorality come from if not a growing lack of religion in our daily lives? Isn't religion where most of our notions of what is good and what is evil -- what is moral and what is immoral -- came from, at least at first? </p>

<p>I see a direct correlation between the lack of religion and the lack of morality in our society. This isn't to say that non-religious people cannot be moral, but I believe that the morality that these people uphold, even if they don't practice a religion, ultimately came from religion.</p>

<p>Now, you may say that morality is self-evident, but I could only agree with you to a point. For instance, there are native Amazonian tribes who kill and cannibalize their young if they are sick. This, no doubt, would be a shockingly immoral act to you and I. To them, however, there is nothing at all wrong with this practice. Their morality comes from their religious beliefs, as do ours.</p>