ThinkingTeen Goes to Jesus Camp Part Deux…

…and gets inspired. More on the inspiration later.

So this entry was going to be about the YouTube clip “Jesus Camp Highlights”… but I decided to do what The Other Rain Man said and look up the whole movie on YouTube.

What I saw was scarier than the short clips I’d previously seen.

So the movie was quite political. Which was cool. Kids+politics+religion=a good mix… when you’re trying to get people to stop mixing the three. For those who still haven’t seen Jesus Camp, “Kids On Fire” is basically a Pentecostal, charismatic, and evangelical kids’ ministry camp to basically get kids on fire for Jesus, indoctrinate them, and train them for life as one of God’s soldiers.

The camp scenes were pretty creepy. Preaching to children about abortion… is just creepy. “ABORTION IS WRONG”. Dude, these kids are about 12 years old or younger. They don’t know what abortion is. They don’t understand what it is. And the adults are basically exploiting them to take to protests and preach… how wrong is that?!

The movie consisted of nothing but adults exploiting their innocent sons and daughters. Nothing but preachers manipulating children. It’s quite obvious to see that they’re not interested in the kids’ welfare at all. They want to spread their hateful and poisonous brand of Christianity around the world… to make these kids literally lay their lives down, literally die for Jesus. Becuase that’s what Islam does, and they must defeat Islam.

Most of the kids, I saw, were homeschooled. They were force-fed creationism, not even getting a chance to think for themselves. Levi’s mother believes Creationism is the answer to everything… their kind think that public education does nothing but tell us that we are but animals and products of natural processes. Well according to science we are… but it puts us in our rightful place. We would not be here if it weren’t for nature. We have similar functions to other animals– monkeys, horses, cats, raccoons. Of course we’re more intelligent. But that’s what sets us apart. Nothing else does. We are of the earth, a part of it. To believe God did it all steals credit from nature, from science and the brilliance of the human mind, separates us from the earth. We don’t have to take care of it, God will provide. that’s not the way it works.

And the bit in the cafeteria about Harry Potter… oh forget it, that was just completely ridiculous.

Becky Fischer is perhaps one of the most dangerous people in America. she’s in control of hundreds of kids. She’s brainwashing them, indoctrinating them, to become politicians and preachers jsut like the ones we have today. What will happen when these poor kids grow up? will they become just like their “mentors”?

Good Lord, I hope not.

So… lately I have been inspired. I’ve been thinking about doing video-blogs every week or so, perhaps on Friday. It might keep me blogging and then maybe you’ll get to see how little I think before I speak… I mean… uh…

Anyway. so, expect a new blog sometime soon (“sometime soon” meaning if you haven’t seen updates around here by October, I’m either in band or dead) and a video early Friday (I have to be at a football game).

~ by thinkingteen on August 17, 2008.