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God’s Army of 6-Year-OldsPosted on Jun 12, 2006
A prize-winning documentary called “Jesus Camp” chronicles the experiences of children as young as 6 who attend a summer camp to become the next Billy Graham. Truly sickening scene from the trailer: An adult pastor thunders at the children: “Had it been in the Old Testament, Harry Potter would have been put to death…. Warlocks are enemies of God.”
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By christian louboutin, December 4, 2009 at 12:03 am Link to this comment
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oh God bless the innocent children, we can here that the president obama said “yes we can”!
Report thisBy Eugen43, September 26, 2007 at 6:56 am Link to this comment
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Have you ever noticed that if you look up Alexander the Great you can find a date of his birth and his death. Look up Cyrus and you can find out when he died. Look up Jesus and you find you can’t find what year he was born in and the year he died is even more obscure. The super volcano Toba blew up about 74000 years ago, but look up Noah and the Ark - no date. This is the difference between history and fantasy. Jesus and Noah were fantasy just as Harry Potter. The sick part about you religious nuts is that you ignore the fact that what is happening in the middle east is a religious war fought on several levels. The loss of life is over 200,000 now. How can so many people believe in Jesus ? Is it sheer stupidity or is that when young minds are brain washed they can believe anything including professional wrestling and Santa. Instead of killing people we could be healing people. You don’t care as long as you got your stupid Jesus.
Report thisBy Augustine88, June 11, 2007 at 7:59 pm Link to this comment
Religion is a good thing, when taken in the right way and used properly. This, however, is not how religion should be used; influencing children to be God’s soldiers is only preparing them to later resent other religions and fear them.
And as for this film educating children on child murder…saying abortion is child murder is techniqually speculative. Of course, this is all opinionated as I have pointed out, but children who are learning about Christianity should be learning about the fundamental teachings of Christianity, like what Ghandi said, not about Christianity and its effects in modern American culture.
Report thisRecommended Reading; Christopher Hedges’ AMERICAN FASCIST.
It is a good read and is written by a Christian who has not gone off his rocker.
By Mike, November 8, 2006 at 3:08 pm Link to this comment
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Those kids were not worshipping Bush. They were praying for him. The cardboard figure was only a picture to look at while they prayed.
It isn’t at all wrong to have very strong feelings against abortion, which is child abuse and child-murder. Of course children might have deep emotions about the killing of children!!!
People who are not even fundamentalist Christians—who have no understanding of our unique culture—who are outsiders—who mock and sneer at what we believe—acting like you know it all about we should raise our children? Do you, for example, criticize black parents for raising their children in black culture?
If you want to raise your kids differently, fine, but please get your judgments off of OUR way of life!!
Report thisBy adam H., November 6, 2006 at 8:45 pm Link to this comment
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okay, Im a christian, and I am a Full bible believer . I believe what Jesus did we can do by faith. If only , like the song says ” If we are the body why arnt his arm reaching why arnt his hands healing….”. This movie , of what i say, kind of freaked me out. It almost seemed a little brainwashy liked they were trying to force it on them. When Jese walked the earth he chose Grown men to be deciples , NOT CHILDREN! The time Jesus did mention kids is when a bunch of them were coming to sit near him, and the diciples were trying to keep them from bothering him(as if they were a bother) and Jesus said “Suffer them not” or in other words keep them not from coming to me. Jesus never led by this type of example, to the extremedy that this movie is showing. As kids, they need to be taught the bilbe in the form of giving milk to a baby, then bread as you get older, then the full meat when your an adult. Most of these kids are following what is being given to them, not fully understanding what they are doing. I can remeber when i was a teen and trying to understand some of the things i do now. When i was trying to fully understand them then I coudnt, I wasn’t ready. Bush is not Jesus guys, and dont asume either that he agrees with this type of publicity. Yes i do believe there is a spiritual battle and we do need to stand up against what is evil. I hate abortion. Why?? because some christian group said I have to, No because it’s destroying life. It’s killing something that deserves the chance to live. Listen God created us not because he was lonely, but because God wanted to make something that could chose to love him, something with a free will. He disires to give life everyone, not kill it. God ALWAYS wants mercy over judgement and distruction. There are times in the bible were God’s eyes would rome to and fro, over the whole earth, to find someone who could stand in the gap for a city emerged in Sin, someone who could stand before God and say lord please forgive them, but was unable to find anyone , and because God is also the Judger their sins and evil couldnt go unpunished. It’s things like this that people who hate christianty fuel on, which satan loves. This is no different then associating Muslim terriost with all Muslims, like thats what they are all like. Also remeber , this video might not fully represent what really goes on, though its enough for me. You want to know what Jesus is really like, pick up a bible, imagine him hung to the cross, blood dripping, and scared and battered.He was wounded for our trangration, bruised for our iniquity, the chastisement of our peace was on him, and by his stipes we are healed, then Listen to Michael W. Smith new Cd and click on the song “Grace”. I was saved by grace, “He traded Heaven for a Wooden Cross” quoted from Michael W. Smith “Stand” CD, song intittled “Grace”. “Grace your grace it shines on me”. Also quoted from same CD, and song.
Report thisBy Bill, October 25, 2006 at 8:11 pm Link to this comment
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Revelation 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I
Report thiswould thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will
spue thee out of my mouth.
By sparkyinsurf, October 11, 2006 at 9:05 am Link to this comment
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I think to have a picture of someone youre praying wisdom for “G W” is not so bad, but taking things out of context is. It is strange how so many people that don’t understand something will criticize and attack it as though they are being attacked. Christianity is to understand peace as exemplified by Jesus, not that we are good examples of this. I know I would not have been able to restrain myself while being tortured and hung on the cross. God is love and love is nothing to fear. Unfortunately we have people that want power, greed, and lust for material possessions. This brings anger, disconcert, and ignorance while obtaining these desires. We as empathetic humans sometimes need to go to war and fight the evilness that evil people do, I don’t think anyone truly wants to do this but feel there is a need to. If we continue to turn our eyes and hearts away from the downtrodden we will fail to grow our humanity in a loving direction. This is just my opinion and after reading the garbage of scared Christian phoebes I felt I needed to put this spin on it. I haven’t seen the movie but am interested to give it a try.
Report thisBy madness, September 28, 2006 at 5:23 pm Link to this comment
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People these days never cease to shock me. Are they out of there minds? Worshipping a cut out of George Bush!? What a contradiction, first telling kids it is wrong to worship anyone else other then God and then making them bow down to CARDBOARD? This “camp” as they are disguising it as needs to be shut down and the parents sending there kids there need to be admitted for having there childrens minds corrupted.
Report thisBy Jessie Beddingfield, September 28, 2006 at 10:06 am Link to this comment
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Jesus camp must be shut down!!! That video was one of the most disturbing things that I have ever seen. The fact that parents would send their children to such a place is disgusting.
Report thisBy nancy, September 28, 2006 at 8:40 am Link to this comment
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I saw the clip on GMA, I think the Pastor was right on, Read your Bible, She IS training up these children in the way they should go. Being ignorant is what has brought Christianity to what you see today. Its time to reclaim our heratage, starting with the youth who will lead us in the future. Press on! Fight the good fight! God will show you the way.
Report thisTHanks for standing strong.
By Cathy, September 26, 2006 at 5:49 am Link to this comment
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Are we trying to out-do the taliban here? It’s hard to believe that some people in this country are so crazy! Those poor kids don’t have a chance! Our President has hijacked our religion and used religion to get elected! This is a sad time for America, and people better wake up and start speaking out!
Report thisBy Alannarchy, September 19, 2006 at 2:18 pm Link to this comment
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Stogie…Islam is not a violent religion in the way that you probably assume. All religions contain violence, but these days, true followers of islam don’t resort to violence over their religion. The people who have, are only an extremely minute number and have clearly exploited and misenterpreted the faith.
Report thisBy stratomagnevity, September 16, 2006 at 11:47 pm Link to this comment
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To blame Christianity as a whole, and/or Christians in America as a whole, for these more radical elements, is a biased, bigotted, and prejudiced viewpoint, and makes the one holding this viewpoint no better than the one’s they are pointing their finger at.
The tone of many of these posts suggests a jaded, bitter, and biased view of all Christianity in America for the very small radical element, which makes them as guilty as anoyone of bigotry. Directing anger at all Christians for the idiocy of these Jesus Camp people makes you as dangerous as them.
As a practicing Christian (yes, Len Hart, there are true followers) I stand against the sort of radical approach displayed in Jesus Camp. If I ever saw an extremist Christian trying to “coerce” someone to believe, I would be the first to come to that victim’s aid and chase off the extremist.
“Free will” ALWAYS has to be respected—BOTH WAYS. I have the freedom to believe in God and the Bible as much as you or anyone else has the freedom to NOT believe or to believe something else, and as long as we are both abiding by the law and not infringing on each other’s rights, there should be mutual respect.
Let’s lose the anger and the accusative finger-pointing which is its own degrading testimony of the baser part of mankind—i.e. have some respect.
Report thisBy Seth, August 4, 2006 at 2:45 pm Link to this comment
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wow, i think we all really have to question our abilty to look at something objectively when we are so willing to generalize 2 billion people into little sentances…
Report thisBy Lee, June 16, 2006 at 7:37 am Link to this comment
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Where are the nornal people anymore? Maybe trying to raise children, find meaningful work, and figure out how to pay bills after the government takes out taxs. Help is on the way with tax cuts, the education system on the mend due to “No Child Left Behind” and unemployement going down. This will take the stress out of daily life and maybe tese children will not be sent off to “re-education camps”
Report thisBy kd, June 16, 2006 at 5:21 am Link to this comment
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If you can’t lie to kids, where’s the joy in life?
Report thisBy Bluestocking, June 15, 2006 at 8:04 pm Link to this comment
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again until it starts sinking in, people…READ YOUR ORWELL. This sort of thinking is almost literally straight out of the pages of “1984”—Big Brother would have approved wholeheartedly. Start ‘em young enough and not only will they never question you, they won’t even be able to grasp the concept of questioning.
Could it be that Battle Cry is not quite meeting expectations when it comes to producing fanatic followers?
Report thisBy Gary Hansen, June 15, 2006 at 8:30 am Link to this comment
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Christian groups seem to changing their focus to more violent tactics. I’m just waiting to read about the first Christian suicide bomber.
Report thisBy joey, June 15, 2006 at 1:06 am Link to this comment
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Everything g w has done has been wrong.
Report this9/11 was a crime that required a police action as a response. Invading any country was the wrong thing to do. The only person in the untided states that understands this fact is cindy sheehan. think of the lives and treasure
We have lost. 6/15/06
By saul, June 14, 2006 at 7:45 pm Link to this comment
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If anyone knows how to contact these fools tell there is a site http://www.religionquestioned.com that shows why the God of the Bible is a stupid Baby killing liar and why Jesus was a stupid liar and the site has an offer to shut down.
Report thisBilly Graham is invited too as he has been too busy racking up $300 million to have educated the heir to the family business, Franklin to the difference between the Supreme Court and Supreme Being as Frank said in 2000 that Bush was chosen by God ( he didn’t see that Supreme Court chose Bush)
If he makes that stretch then the same could have been said about the man he hated Clinton or Hitler
By James Bond, June 14, 2006 at 8:12 am Link to this comment
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I get a kick when some ignoramus like Stogie repeats the idiotic right-wing talking point that Christianity has always been a peaceful religion.
Report thisEver hear of the Crusades? How about the Spanish Inquisition? Yea, they were real benign.
By Greg Forest, June 14, 2006 at 6:36 am Link to this comment
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Don’t get too freaked out folks. Census Bureau says the largest growing demographic in the religious front is not Choice A - the 80% of the country that professes to believe in Jesus. Its not Choice B - the 5% that claim to be Jews, Hindus or Moslems. Nope. Happily the fastest growing group is Choice C - “agnostic, atheist or no religion.” This number has doubled in the last decade from 7% to 15%. Couple more decades and the unicorn and talking donkey folks will be in the minority. Why? Because there aren’t unicorns or talking donkeys no matter how hard they want to believe there are. THAT is why the Fundamentalists are going hog wild. They are losing their base and know it. Even worse is the fact that many believers also wonder if they should be putting all their hearts into a theology of exclusion and hatred. Thankfully there are still Christians who ask themselves, “What would Jesus do?” and walk away from Falwell, Roberston and Hagey. On the other hand, if you want a good deal on a unicorn foal, please visit my faith-based breeding program at gregforestmedia.com.
Report thisBy Len Hart, June 13, 2006 at 2:52 pm Link to this comment
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Christianity must be a false religion because no one really follows it, least of all the “Christians”.
Report thisBy Stogie, June 13, 2006 at 2:46 pm Link to this comment
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What is it about you moonbats and religion? You are so terribly critical of the benign religion of Christianity and so tolerant of the murderous, oppressive, and hateful religion of Islam.
Maybe your hatred of Christianity is just displacement. It’s easier to hate a benign religion than one that might behead you.
Report thisBy Reality, June 13, 2006 at 12:59 pm Link to this comment
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Wow, that one anti-Harry Potter lady is HUGE. Hmmmm, seems to me that GLUTTONY is against God lady. Perhaps you should smite yourself a few times?
Report thisBy sean heretic, June 13, 2006 at 12:34 pm Link to this comment
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had bush just gone on tv after 9/11 and forgiven our enenies i think the other islamic groups would have dillivered osama and companies heads in buckets on the white house lawn with in the week…it is wwjd (what would jesus do) not what would george do??.....we found out the hard way though a lot of us knew before….and what bothers the neocon bushiviekse the most is that the french were right…..god bless america and deliver us from evil…...
Report thisBy Dan Smith, June 13, 2006 at 12:05 pm Link to this comment
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It took me 40 years to throw off the shackles of organized religion and I’m constantly amazed at how primitive and fearful so many people are in this world even with all out technology. If man doesn’t destroy himself first, there may be hope in the far distant future to throw off these shackles of fear,hate and divisiveness, can you “Imagine” it?
Report thisBy Erich Walrath, June 13, 2006 at 11:58 am Link to this comment
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As grotesque as this is, we need some perspective when addressing fundamentalist Christian madrasses.
20% of these kids will grow up to be Christian fascists. This is unfortunate, but it would probably happen anyway…
After years of therapy, failed marriages, and general cognitive dissonance, another 20% will become proponents of the Enlightenment. They will be forever estranged from organized religion. (Someone in this group will be probably facilitate their generation’s version of Truthdig.)
The remaining 80% will reject the overt BS and simply get on with their lives.
People are going to make choices, including bad ones, on how to raise their kids. They should probably be allowed to do so.
Report thisBy C Quil, June 13, 2006 at 9:06 am Link to this comment
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Great! Just what the world needs - another bunch of fanatics. If it was a bunch of normal children, most would probably just shrug it off eventually. These kids are the offspring of crazies who send them to these camps. Then they go home are listen to more crazy talk.
There must be laws against this. These places should be shut down. Hate speech is hate speech - it doesn’t matter who says it.
Report thisBy SadButTrue, June 13, 2006 at 4:20 am Link to this comment
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As an atheist who has studied Christianity in some depth I would prefer they go back to old ascetic model exemplified by St. Anthony and Simeon Stylitus. Get thee to the desert, and subsist on locusts and honey. Leave the rest of us the hell alone. One suspects this crew to be addicted to snorting bat guano.
Report thisBy R. A. Earl, June 12, 2006 at 9:17 pm Link to this comment
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This cult is so clearly committing child abuse it’s amazing to me why the leaders aren’t arrested and jailed.
The zealous prig, dripping in phoney Tammy Baker makeup, is LYING to these children, pure and simple. She and her message illustrate how depraved and ugly fanaticism can become.
It’s disgusting to deliberately mislead and pervert young minds this way. The practise should be made completely illegal.
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