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Organizers of an evangelical summer camp for children featured in the documentary "Jesus Camp" are discontinuing the camp because of negative reaction sparked by the film and recent vandalism at the camp site in Devils Lake, North Dakota.
"We have decided to hold different activities in future," Pentecostal pastor and camp organizer Becky Fischer told Reuters.
Fischer was the central figure in "Jesus Camp," a documentary about Pentecostal evangelical Christians, some of whom send their children to summer camp where they pray, "speak in tongues" and are urged to campaign against abortion.
In the months since the film was released the campground was vandalized and Fischer was inundated with negative e-mails and phone calls.
In one of the film's scenes, a cardboard effigy of President George W. Bush is placed on stage before an assembly, so attendees can pray he make America "one nation under God."
The film has no voice-overs or narrative. Heidi Ewing, who directed the film with Rachel Grady, said the aim was to show a slice of American culture unfamiliar to many in America and abroad.
When it was released in May, a Variety magazine reviewer said, "Liberals might also be alarmed by images of 7-year-olds in camouflage face-paint performing spiritual war dances."
Fischer was criticized by some for "brainwashing" the children.
The film also features scenes with disgraced evangelical leader the Rev. Ted Haggard, who resigned as pastor of the 14,000 member New Life Church in Colorado Springs last week after a gay sex and drug scandal.
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"We have decided to hold different activities in future," Pentecostal pastor and camp organizer Becky Fischer told Reuters.
Fischer was the central figure in "Jesus Camp," a documentary about Pentecostal evangelical Christians, some of whom send their children to summer camp where they pray, "speak in tongues" and are urged to campaign against abortion.
In the months since the film was released the campground was vandalized and Fischer was inundated with negative e-mails and phone calls.
In one of the film's scenes, a cardboard effigy of President George W. Bush is placed on stage before an assembly, so attendees can pray he make America "one nation under God."
The film has no voice-overs or narrative. Heidi Ewing, who directed the film with Rachel Grady, said the aim was to show a slice of American culture unfamiliar to many in America and abroad.
When it was released in May, a Variety magazine reviewer said, "Liberals might also be alarmed by images of 7-year-olds in camouflage face-paint performing spiritual war dances."
Fischer was criticized by some for "brainwashing" the children.
The film also features scenes with disgraced evangelical leader the Rev. Ted Haggard, who resigned as pastor of the 14,000 member New Life Church in Colorado Springs last week after a gay sex and drug scandal.
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To view The Daily Show report: Click here
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Man o man. Is it possible? Is the tide turning? Is this the um...
(Communists spoke of a "Red dawn" when the day would break on which the Communist ideals would come to fruition. What should we have?)
Well, screw it. This is exactly the kind of thing they always flaunt. "Expose the dark things to light and they will flee". Well, guess what... it works!
Its a begining.
But there are other camps where christian ideology is pounded into children, where christian militarisim is taught, where the evil still stands unchalenged.
It takes more than one documentary film to beat the fundies, they close one camp, and open three more.
The christian cult has long been the master of subterfuge and lies, they know how to create false comfort, WATCH THEM CLOSELY.
Watching christians, christianity and the religious right going out backwards all over the place.
Woohooo!!!!
So rare.
I've said it before. Hypocrisy. It's the new black.
One step closer to our goal (:
bible nuts of that day.
Unfortunately this will soon pass. Does it even matter to the average fundy to begin with?,......
HELL NO! (it's just the devil attacking the church!!)
Yes, there is still hope.....the next step is to become disassociated.
We also realize that they are a very active and vocal minority with an inordinate amount of influence with our nation's leaders.
We also realize that the majority of the moderate or mainstream (whatever they're calling themselves) Christians aren't doing much to distance themselves from these fundie nuts, as if they will be most content to ride their coattails into a 'new Christian nation.'
We furthermore realize how these fundamentalist evangelicals feel about those of us who are agnostic, atheist, pagan, gay or any other belief system they don't understand, like or wish to tolerate (much hostility.)
Lastly, we appreciate how you feel, but please appreciate our concerns, as well.
Thackerie,..fundies live in a insulated,incestous and narcissitic
realm that defies description.
Yeah,.it's freakin weird alright!
Shit! Another version of Christ-insanity. How the hell am I to keep up?
~If it quacks like a duck, it is a duck~
http://ldavidson.blogspot.com/
Just another hippie movement.
South2003,....Haggard kind of looks like a duck,... am I right?
O well he can't help that.
Goodbye and Good Riddance!
With the christians having their asses handed to them in the elections and now this... the air is starting to smell sweeter already...
Enough of this mumbo jumbo already!! Somebody please make it stop!!
Maybe, just maybe, everyone will wake up from the insanity of all religions, and then the world will be a better place for coexistence of all peoples.
1) Instinctively following a strong, male leader, just like chimps do. Exceptions are rare.
2) The tendency to see patterns even if they are not actually there.
3) Herd instinct / peer pressure.
4) Fear of death. "I´ll never see her again? No! I can´t accept that!"
5) Ignorance. "Well how do you explain that? We did not just appear!"
6) Egocentrism / Anthropocentrism. "All this exists because of us".
7) The "God Module". Apparently the aforementioned qualities favored the development of this part of the brain, which is, in my opinion, the cause of all religion.
The best we can hope for is a (relatively) harmless religion, like Buddhism, but unfortunately natural selection makes sure the aggressive ones prevail. This is why Christianity and Islam represent half the world´s population.
You people actually sound like it's apparent that God doesnt exist and the Bible is just a bunch of short stories without a point to them.
And religion is extremely harmful. Man. Imagine if the world had no religion at all - and in that I include all systems which irrationally venerate a person or idea, such as Juche. Or in other words I am saying "Imagine what the world would be like if people used their brains."
History shows what the world would be like without religion. The world of Joseph Stalin, an atheist who killed 20 million of his own countrymen. Of course he's not alone, there are a number of stellar examples to choose from; like Mao tse Tung, Pol Pot, Kim Jung Il.
I don't think it matters because both religion and non-religion is made up of men, men who are by nature corrupt. The more power they have the more ability they have to fulfill their own wicked desires.
In other words all people have a proclivity towards evil. Of course from your perspective it may only be a form of natural selection.
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