The Athiest Mama does a review on the movie Jesus Camp.

They had a man come in with a red shirt that said “Life” and he handed out “Life” bracelets to all of the kids and then gave them all little plastic fetuses that were supposedly 7 weeks gestation. Then they had them all praying and crying hysterically. He told them that 1/3 of their friends couldn’t be there with them because they had been murdered.

How scary is that?

Tell me, in what sense it is right to tell a child that people in the world are murders because they were raped, or too young, or not ready. The events that are shown in Jesus Camp are child abuse. This makes me so happy that I wasn’t hired at Kenesserie - I know that I wasn’t a part of something like this. It is heart breaking to see so many children being SENT to evangelical camps to be trained just as children in Islam are. The women who leads the whole thing, Becky Fisher, said that her goal is to have children ready to lay down their lives for god.

She gets the children into this overwhelming emotional frenzy. The children are literally scared. They are scared that they are displeasing god, and they are scared into believing that they need to repent and have their sins washed away and to get rid of the demons that are dwelling within them. It is internalizing a fear of people who are different from them. They are NOT being taught values, and NOT being taught the religion… they are flat out being abused.

Perhaps if the children understood the religion, and if they understood the doctrine behind their manipulation it would be a different. But this is what abusers do. A man who beats his wife makes her scared to leave and makes her emotions so overwhelming that she wont leave. Sex abusers get children by invoking in them emotions which they don’t understand, but they think they’re alright because they don’t know better. They are manipulated and forever branded by these intense emotions - this is what the people at Jesus Camp do to the kids.

The last clip in this post is really really scary for a couple of reasons.

1. What if that women had a gun in her purse and wanted to shoot the little girl for preaching to her.
2. "Good job way to be obediant"… Encouraging a little girl to just listen and do what she is told is wrong on a million different levels. Say the girl she walked up to was a rapist, and told the little girl that god was saying to bring her a gift, but she had to come to the car to get it. …Okay, I know, bad example. But she’s been taught to be obediant, and she’s been taught that whatever god says is the right thing. So what is to stop her from going?