Jesus Camp ...

[stoli_sambuca]

You hear about evangelicalism today, in particular, in politics. When you hear the word, you often think about mega churches and televangelists, but there is a much more fundamental movement. Jesus Camp is that. Jesus Camp is the evangelical Christian camp of rare devotion, and there is a documentary film on this coming up. Its title is "Jesus Camp". One of documentaries I'm looking forward to watching ...

You can see the trailer here ...

http://www.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/jesuscamp/trailer/

[Gee_Queen]

:eek: :eek: :eek: can you say "brainwash"!?

[stoli_sambuca]

:eek: :eek: :eek: can you say "brainwash"!?
Pretty scary ... huh?

When I watched the trailer, I felt kind of nauseated. I also felt a bit scared. From what I understand, mega churches and televangelists target adults. There is also an evangelical college. Now this ...

[Gee_Queen]

Is the movie anti- or pro christianity? I couldn't figure it out.

The part with the crying children at the end....:mad:

[stoli_sambuca]

Is the movie anti- or pro christianity? I couldn't figure it out.

First, I think we need to understand that there is a profound difference between Evangelism, i.e., Christian fundamentalism, and Christianity. I'd say the former is more like a cult. To answer your question, I don't know the answer, but my guess is that the film's main focus is to show what Jesus Camp really is without pre-judging what it is or what it does. That said, the commentator of the film is Mike Papantonio.

http://ringoffireradio.com/mike_papantonio.asp

[Christoph]

Some interesting documentaries are released lately. But there is no release date for Europe. Too bad.

[Damian Karras]

What you're seeing there is reactoinary, basically. There's a two fold problem that's been happening, which causes people to be drawn to these kinds of things. On one side there's the evangelical movement, which is aggressive in not only it's preaching, but also of it's push for legislation to match it's interpretation of religious text. On the other side, you then have the reactionary left, which then deems any connection to religion as inherently bad and staples "seperation of church and state" to anyone whose faith guides them to any degree. Then as a reaction to the reactionary left, there are people who are somewhat religious, and feel attacked, and they then begin to take up a newer more offense oriented role in their faiths. Combine that with a current political climate where many people are beating a drum which is to the tune of a war of Christian versus Islamic, and this is what you get.
Religions themselves are neither good nor bad, they are just organizations. People on the other hand, use organizations to the ends the feel is necessary. What you're seeing in that trailer is why the fanatical on both sides are winning these battles and the people of the middle ground are not. The fanatical understand that belief is nothing without action behind it.

Aggression leads to nothing but more aggression.