Evangelical

I would highly recommend watching the A&E documentary entitled "Jesus Camp" to fully witness the exploitations that Christian fundamentalists use to recruit their own children. They view the world ultimately as some religious battleground. Frankly, it is disgusting to see these border-line schizophrenic parents embed their own belief system into the blank canvas that is their child's brain. Usually, the parents do pass down their religious traditions to their kin, but when such malicious intent is involved in the act, this coincides with the most-feared Islamic "extremist".

In the documentary, the head camp leader Becky Fischer runs a Pentecostal camp for children in North Dakota amply named "Kids on Fire". Here, it follows three Evangelical children, who all exploit themselves unwillingly to the demands of their church leaders. Levi, one of the kids who is home schooled, was asked by his mother how he would feel if they forcefully taught evolution in his academic life. He almost cringed at the resonance of the otherwise widely-accepted view of how life came to be. This twelve-year old was force-fed to essentially reject anything not pertaining to what he was taught by his mother. They claim to adopt the easily-refutable concept of creationism, but obviously this goes hand-in-hand with my earlier post concerning Christianity.

Later in the movie, a man (whom I forget the name of) recruits the children into his pro-life abortion campaign. He gives them a presentation of his views, naturally dumbed down with a frightening overtone. They oblige and continue to congregate into a seemingly possessed group to chant in tongues to their lord. The children, the man, and few other adults proceed to place red tape with the word "LIFE" scribbled on the front. Their next step is to bombard Capital Hill with the views that were forced into their heads. The man took advantage of these kids for his own militant intent. These kids are too young to understand both sides of situations or to even develop ideas pertaining things bigger than themselves. Like someone said while watching this, these kids need to be playing and getting dirty, not repenting constantly with some predisposed idea of hatred for themselves and a country founded on mental freedom.

Watch this and soak it in. I feel that in no way does this documentary reflect all Christian ideologies or even most for that matter. I have alot of respect for most Christians, so please don't transcribe this as so. You can find this documentary online for free if you're good. If not, rent it via NetFlix. View this movie, and see the things some people will do for self-fulfillment.