Jesus Camp

I just saw the documentary Jesus Camp on DVD about the radical Christian camp in North Dakota training kids to be warriors for Jesus. It was fascinating to see how passionate these extreme evangelicals are in their beliefs about how kids should be raised. Having grown up in the Church myself I’m all for church camps and teaching kids about Jesus. The thing that bothered me the most about this movie was that they focused on teaching kids about political issues such as anti-abortion, evolution vs. creationism, and praying for change in our government. Most of the camp sermons focused on their anger with how wrong the world is today. There were no sermons about how kids should go back to their schools and show love, peace and joy to their classmates and share Jesus in a gentle, non-intimidating way. One ironic segment of the movie shows Ted Haggard, former senior pastor of New Life Church who was outed recently about his dealings with a male prostitute, talking about the evils of homosexuality. Funny timing on the release of this movie indeed. I think these evangelical Churches need to focus a little more on compassion because many of these so called “sodomites” are in their own congregation and clergy. But anyways, I highly recommend you watch this interesting documentary because it will give you more insight on the people who make up such a large percentage of our nation today.

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