Jesus Camp, Say it ain't so.
What do I think of Jesus Camp? Speechless, that was my first reaction. When Sam Harris talks about religious moderates, as part of the problem, this is a tiny example of the problem manifesting itself. The below ABC news story outlines the thinking of the group behind Jesus Camp, a documentary outlining an actual camp for children.
As I watched this I felt like it was some sort of spoof. For a moment it seemed as though they were paying the camp spokesperson to say things that would put her views way outside of the mainstream. This is no spoof; these people actually want to indoctrinate these children with the idea of giving up their lives for Jesus. She clearly makes a comparison between the children in the camp and the Islamic indoctrination that occurs in the Muslim world, the kind seen in great movies like Syriana.
This is so utterly disturbing.
After watching this, I found a good Bill Mayer video conversation that helped me feel much better about the atrocities seen in the above video. I for a long time, and still somewhat think that religion is the root of all evil and causes more trouble than its worth. An awesome quote by Reza Aslan, Author of No God but God near the end of the clip helps me to see that this might not always be the case.
I understand this assessment and believe that religion is a dangerous weapon which not only allows justification, but a sort of brainwashing through lies and promise of unrealistic proportions.
This mythology that there are some religions that are religions of the sword and some are not, is bullshit. ... The fact of the matter is, it’s not religion that is violent or peaceful, its people who are violent or peaceful.
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The thing about religion is it provides a powerful language through which you can justify any ideology, piece and tolerance or ideologies of fanaticism.
1 Comments:
I remember I first saw this on the Colbert Report, must I add that it was very funny how steven was saying how those kids were on fire, hahah.
I honestly think there's no explanation needed for this, this is a clear example of religious fanatism, very extreme at that if you will, But what can one do. They are sheltered by religious freedom just like we are, not that I'm comparing us to lunatics but simply making a statement.
This will sure make Christians look a lot better than the Muslins the can't stop criticizing for detonating explosive charges strapped to their chest, they think the best way to counter this is to raise young children with the mentality to die for jesus christ in some sort of a similar fashion, just splendid.
Not that Jesus Camps represents all Christianity, But neither do palestine extremists represent Muslims and that in turn, should teach people not to generalize, but then again, other christians seem to not react to this anyway, so what is one to do.
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