Jesus Camp
Steve and I went to see the movie Jesus Camp yesterday. It was very scary how the neo-con evangelicals brainwash their kids into being soldiers for Jesus. They even pray over a cardboard effigy of George Bush, praying for Jesus to help Bush lead us to a right wing, neo-con, brainwashed country. I don’t really think George Bush is God’s representative on earth. If anything, he’s a false prophet bringing the apocalypse closer, which I suppose most Evangelicals think is a great thing. The movie was very disturbing on a number of levels, not the least of which was the fight Steve and I had afterward. Steve considers me to be a “whackjob liberal” whereas he considers the people in the film to be relatively harmless. Of course, they were praying in tongues and rolling around on the floor and -I’m- the whackjob.
Thank god that Jesus Camp has closed down.
Of course, the scandal with Ted Haggard, who is featured in the film, probably had something to do with the camp closing as well, though I haven’t seen anything to that effect. Here’s Jon Daily on Ted Haggard.
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