Friday 29th of March 2024

on crazy fundamentalists .....

‘Gandhi once said if Christians lived according to their
faith, there would be no Hindus left in India. He knew how powerful the
fundamental tenets of Christianity - fighting poverty, caring for the least
among us, loving your enemies, eschewing materialism and embracing humility -
could be if everyone who called themselves a Christian truly followed them. 

The new documentary, Jesus Camp,
which chronicles a North Dakota summer camp where kids as young as 6 are taught
to become dedicated Christian soldiers in "God's army," is an
illustration of this sentiment in the extreme. 

The film, by Heidi Ewing and
Rachel Grady, the duo who also directed the critically-acclaimed The Boys of
Baraka, opened to an appreciative and flabbergasted audience at the 2006
TriBeca Film Festival, where it received the Special Jury Award. The directors
skillfully captured the daily interactions of a world that would be foreign to
most viewers: children speaking in tongues and talking of being "born
again" at age 5.’ 

Using Children As 'God's Army'