Jesus Camp
I just finished watching "Jesus Camp". VERRRRRYYYY interesting...
I literally just finished watching it, so I don't have a response that is fully formed in my mind yet. Everything is still in "Alphabet soup" stage in my head, swirling around until words start to solidify and make sense.
Anyways, I just started looking up the whereabouts of Becky Fischer, one of the main characters of this pseudo-documentary about a kids ministry she runs that is highly controversial, mostly due to the borderline scary ways of "indoctrinating" children with the gospel and how to be an army of God to "take back America for Christ."
As I was searching online, I came across a blog that mentioned how Becky Fischer had to actually close her Jesus Camp because it was vandalized and harassed after the making of the film.
I found an anonymous comment on the post from a non-Christian, that I thought to be very interesting.
Any comments yourself, and I'm all ears:
Yes, it's a little edgy, but it's probably one of the better apologetic rebuttals from a non-Christian standpoint that I've heard in a long time. And kudos to this person for actually interpreting that scripture correctly!
Now I've perked your interest. Go rent the movie and I'd love to hear your thoughts on it! Comment away!!! Have a good night!
I literally just finished watching it, so I don't have a response that is fully formed in my mind yet. Everything is still in "Alphabet soup" stage in my head, swirling around until words start to solidify and make sense.
Anyways, I just started looking up the whereabouts of Becky Fischer, one of the main characters of this pseudo-documentary about a kids ministry she runs that is highly controversial, mostly due to the borderline scary ways of "indoctrinating" children with the gospel and how to be an army of God to "take back America for Christ."
As I was searching online, I came across a blog that mentioned how Becky Fischer had to actually close her Jesus Camp because it was vandalized and harassed after the making of the film.
I found an anonymous comment on the post from a non-Christian, that I thought to be very interesting.
Any comments yourself, and I'm all ears:
Those kids are going to do the work of the Earth, because they're going to realize that they are the Earth...and that sense of spirit and love and beauty is much more powerful than any hateful doctorine they were fed as a kid. And they may even retain their original beliefs, but if they're really smart, they'll catch on pretty quickly that you don't get anywhere by disrespecting another person's belief system and forcibly inserting your own to replace it. They'll realize that when Jesus said "The meek shall inherit the Earth," he wasn't referring to a group of obnoxious, sexually repressed, homophobic racists with unfortunate hairdos in Kansas City who think the entirety of the human population, excepting those who share their beliefs and are not from competing churches, are going to roast in hell. He was talking about the humble who take care of the Earth and work with it, not against it.
Yes, it's a little edgy, but it's probably one of the better apologetic rebuttals from a non-Christian standpoint that I've heard in a long time. And kudos to this person for actually interpreting that scripture correctly!
Now I've perked your interest. Go rent the movie and I'd love to hear your thoughts on it! Comment away!!! Have a good night!
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