Jesus Camp (controversial 2006 Evangelical documentary)

A notorious and often disturbing documentary on an Evangelical church and it's congregation - from which Levi, Rachael, and Tory go to Pastor Becky Fischer's "Kids on Fire" summer camp in Devil's Lake, North Dakota - where kids as young as 6 years-old are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers in "God's army." The award winning film follows these children at camp as they hone their "prophetic gifts" and are schooled in how to "take back America for Christ." The film is a first-ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born-again Christian children to become an active part of America's political future.
marinarasays...

Borat builds a campfire and wakes up next to an evangelical church. Then when he wanders in he they grab him up and heal the devil out of him.

As an evangelical myself, I love that scene.

benjeesays...

Yeah - it's the whole thing (probably for a short amount of time!) Note: ex-National Association of Evangelical's President, Ted Haggard and his old Colorado Springs New-Life 'mega-church' featured 1 hour and 4 minutes in. (Comedy for the kids at the end during the credits).

calvadossays...

As a moderately religious Christian, I say this about the people in the film: freaky-deaky.

Also, to quote the great Hank Hill on Christian rock: "You aren't making Christianity any better, you're just making rock and roll worse!"

calvadossays...

If *I* ever say a prayer about anything Powerpoint-related, it'll be something like "dear God, please let this neverending Military Law lecture be over two seconds ago".

Is that Christian dance music I hear?

antimattersays...

im sure this is known but just for the record, Ted Haggard was found to be a meth smoking homosexual. Although he says he simply bought the meth out of temptation and never actually ingested it, plus that the male prostitute he hired was simply a massager.

/all these people are simply Crazy.
//herd them all off a cliff
///that fat lady is the loneliest person i've seen in a while.

obscenesimiansays...

Luckily,in this case, the majority of humanity is apathetic; but 10% of these morons will eventually act upon what they are taught. Get ready for a rash of Waco type shit in 10 or 20 years. (My money is on the FLDS being responsible for the first bloodbath)

Arghsays...

Please remove the "comedy" tag. There's absolutely nothing funny about this. This is extremely sad. The parents who are sending their kids over there are irresponsible. The people organizing this camp are mentally ill. This really sickens me.

siftbotsays...

Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Sunday 22nd April 2007 (promotion called by gold star member Farhad2000)

Enzobluesays...

I really wanted to see this film. Now that I can watch it, I can't get even halfway through it before hitting my personal limit. It's just too much for my stomach.

nibiyabisays...

The evangelicals are actually right about global warming, but not for the right reasons -- they believe it based on faith rather than based on hard evidence. Otherwise, totally batshit.

EDIT: Wow, twenty minutes in and I just can't stomach any more. I actually feel physically ill -- going to have to watch the rest tomorrow.

Ozziesays...

11 minutes in...sounds like shes building an army for a holy war. Upvote for the rat tail...Religion gets ridiculous when you are commanding a bowling ball in the name of Jesus to get a strike!

Ted Haggard - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Haggard

"In November 2006, he resigned or was removed from all of his leadership positions after allegations of homosexual sex and drug abuse were made by whistleblower Mike Jones, a former male prostitute."

Final thoughts...this is why we need to vote

Memoraresays...

The general public is absolutely clueless about what's going on.

These people aren't playing games, they're not Waco nutjobs, they're not a joke, and there's not just a few of them.

They are well organized, well funded, hard core conservative religious activists who are 100% devoted, body mind and soul, to bringing about a Theocratic State in this country and abolishing personal Liberty and Freedom.

As stated by the 'pastor' calling in toward the end of the film, in such a Theocracy, equality of freedom simply cannot be allowed.

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