[Osx-nutters] Re: Jesus Camp

[rogerhoward at rogerroger.org]

On Nov 30, 2006, at 4:54 PM, LuKreme wrote:

> On 30-Nov-2006, at 17:41, Roger Howard wrote:
>> On Thu, November 30, 2006 4:22 pm, LuKreme wrote:
>>> On 30-Nov-2006, at 14:06, Roger Howard wrote:
>>>> Ok, I'm not going to even wade into the treacherous AIT thread...
>>>> but I
>>>> just saw "Jesus Camp" last night so thought I'd ask whether anyone
>>>> else
>>>> had, and if so whether you thought it wasn't the singularly most
>>>> terrifying movie all year (at least).
>>>
>>> It's sitting here on my HD, but I've not gotten around to  
>>> watching it
>>> as yet.
>>>
>>>> It actually made my girlfriend, a teacher in training, cry, and I'm
>>>> just
>>>> still in shock.
>>>
>>> Well, fundies of any stripe are scary people.  Been saying that for
>>> years.
>>
>> Well yeah... but where this film hit me is that it's about the
>> indoctrination of children - and I don't just mean Sunday school.  
>> It was
>> horrifying to watch them create brainwashed, confused, little  
>> fundies.
>
> Right, but that is what Fundies DO best, right?

I guess so. Maybe it's just cultural myopia, that I'm not so  
surprised when I see Iranian, or even Saudi, kids being taught how to  
hate, and being inculcated with a very warped, medieval worldview,  
yet I'm shocked to see it happening here. It certainly saddens me in  
either instance. Whatever the case, it was extremely sad to witness.  
This isn't a little backwater cult, afterall.

I just have to wonder what these kids can possibly contribute to the  
world as they grow older; they are bound to be isolationists,  
paranoids, and hate mongers. It's one thing to know, intellectually,  
these people exist, and obviously to know on some level that it  
starts with them as children, but to watch the passing of the torch  
was painful.

I have never see a more un-Christian bunch of hate filled,  
unenlighted, slovenly cultists who are, ultimately, so close to being  
considered mainstream.

The footage at the end with (just coincidentally) the Rev. Ted  
Haggard is of course priceless.