Jesus Camp
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Movie Reviews of Jesus Camp
Movie Review: Frightening expose of religious fanatacism, and the accompanying Culture War, in America today
Summary: 5 Stars
The intro was hard for me to watch, where the kids are at the camp, and that one boy was crying, because I KNOW that feeling, and I seriously got chills the entire time I was watching it. When you're there, when you're feeling it and the Spirit Is In You, it's REAL, you ARE feeling God, and it's a feeling that is absolutely like none other... but scary, because they're using the mind's awesome power of Trancing Out to train children to be warriors.
From there, the entire movie not only exposes the fanaticism and lunacy of it all, but also serves the demonstrate the hypocrisy of the Evangelical population. We would not have had scientific progress if scientists had never challenged Church Doctrine, and yet all the Evangelical families shown are living with all the modern conveniences ~ packaged food, radios, televisions... The family sits at the table and denounces evolution, but I'd be willing to bet some serious money that when they get sick, they see a doctor and get medicine. And yet modern antibiotics rely on the fundamental understanding of the process of evolution.
Further, the Evangelicals denounce the Scandanavian countries as being "godless" and filled with the devil, and yet those are the only ones on the planet which have been able to acheive a strong Social Democracy.
At the end, the radio guy (I must have missed his name somewhere, d'oh!) comments, "... the more I hear about this, it just gets crazier and crazier...." And, yes. That sums it up neatly.
I think everyone needs to see this film, to see what we're really facing in our society. In order to gain any real progress in our country ~ progress toward true Democracy and true Liberty, and a country that values civil liberties as much as social welfare, we must eliminate this way of thinking.
Movie Review: Accurate Representation; Sensational Film!
Summary: 5 Stars
Few movies entice me to watch it over again with the director's commentary turned on, but this one did! I was enthralled! I was raised in a very conservative Christian home and attended mostly baptist churches and baptist bible camps. Most of my youth experiences were similar to the those of the kids' in the movie but not as extreme. We didn't talk in tongues or collapse to the floor. This is definitely an extreme sect of the Christian faith. I only hope that all Christians aren't seen as nut jobs because of those portrayed here.
The movie was excellent! The directing was done in a way that made you feel like you were a casual observer; the TV Screen seemed to disappear as we dissolved into the story. The movie definitely has a very 3-dimensional feel to it and the kids are very likable. I found my self feeling emotions of happiness for the kids at times and at other times, sheer horror! Some of the things these kids were put through to scare them into believing was shocking.
You're left with a lot of questions which is why I felt like immediately watching it over again with the director's commentary which was helpful. I'm left wanting more! I'd love to see a follow up movie on where the kids and adults featured are now and what they're involved in.
This is a movie I will be watching over and over again as I take it with me to my parent's house (that should be interesting) and the houses of many friends and associates. I could just loan it out to people, but this is something to watch with people and get their reactions throughout the movie and talk about it after.
This is now on my top 10 list of movies in my library and I'm very happy with the little money I parted with to have this one of a kind gem!
Movie Review: wonderful movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I think this movie is a great film for those who don't believe in the Pentacostal religion - it is informative without being mean or biased, and it can test your biases and make you think about your own cultural tolerance for systems that are different from your own.
The portrayal of the Pentacostal church and children's camp was done well and seemed to me to be fair/balanced. From what I read, even Becky Fisher found it to be so. For those who don't believe in the born-again/Pentacostal agenda, this can be an eye-opening movie about the Pentacostal religion. Initially I found myself shocked and upset at how the children were seemingly being "brainwashed" and psychologically traumatized by Becky Fisher's sermons. But then I told myself to check those biases - this is simply another cultural group with religious beliefs that are different from mine. I would want my kids to be raised within my cultural/religious beliefs. I would want them to grow into adults who truly take pride in their cultural and spiritual heritage. All families have that wish and that right, and that's what this group is doing too. It was hard (for me) to watch the kids preach about a dogma that I personally find offensive and against my own beliefs. But the point is - these families are simply following their religious beliefs. As someone posted here, it is seen by those in this religion as 'spiritual maturity' for these kids to have this kind of fervor. It's totally appropriate in this church for them to speak in tongues and preach to others as a means of "winning the lost." Watch this movie for an experience which will truly challenge those who don't believe in this path to examine the boundaries of your own religious tolerance.
Movie Review: I lived this,I believed this,I taught this...yes it is out there..and yes it is to be feared
Summary: 5 Stars
I weigh in on "Jesus Camp" for one reason alone;25 years ago I lived this, I believed it, I taught it and now am soooooo far removed from it that I can clearly see all of this hatred and brain-washing for what it is.I myself was taught to believe what Becky Fisher et al propose as Christianity.I was a needy teenager and the "fright factor" of not being everything that God wanted was enormous on an impressionable brain.I was a Missionary and I did what I was taught.I did not question,and I did not think for myself.When I did, I was severely chastised.Relax you who are seething right now!....i know that "Jesus Camp" is not representative of all Christianity,but it is out there, and it is maybe not so "fringe" as you may think!
I was totally disturbed by this wonderful documentary simply because, though it is very "fringe" in the extremes of Christianity in the U.S, much of what is presented in "Jesus Camp",especially the attitudes of exclusive right to "The Truth" and an allegiance to the President is very common in even lesser denominations of Fundamentalism ( OKAY...now that remark may spare some Inquisitional attitudes!).Who Becky Fisher is IS real.Who Ted Haggart is ( oh boy was he exposed!) IS real.These children and their "radical stand for Christ" is as real as any Muslim Fundamentalist Extremist.
I was "deprogrammed" (as it were) over time.What bugs me still is that I am a really intelligent human being....BUT if you are needy and aimless, this brand of "Jesus" can be very appealing as any "search for truth or enlightenment".
Don't be shocked by this documentary....fear it...and fight it.I know whereof I speak.
(What.... no hateful retorts yet?.......)
Movie Review: Pity the children
Summary: 5 Stars
Jesus Camp is a riveting but bleak film.
Most eight year olds are not aware of, nor concerned with, government, politics, ideology or theology. That's not to say they're incapable of giving such issues their interest, nor that their development is likely to be impaired by encountering and thinking about them. As this film so clearly demonstrates, it's how you teach that makes the difference.
Jesus Camp has an obvious point of view that isn't sympathetic to the Evangelicals it portrays. Perhaps when the filmmakers began this project they didn't have any particular bias towards apocalyptic Biblical literalists. I don't really know, but I can image how neutrality could be easily subverted after meeting some of the people in this film and observing their lives and their "teaching" methods. It's difficult to feel any sympathy for people of any faith who as a result of ideological motivation see people as things, pawns in a supernatural game, rather than as individuals to be cared for and loved. It's even more difficult to deal with the enmity that arises on seeing parents and "teachers" using intense emotional appeals and peer pressure as methods of ideological indoctrination, creating in the minds of a children a world of "us" and "them," the kind of world that doesn't normally exist for children until after puberty.
Watch this film and despair the generation of lost children produced by this 21st century generation of know-nothing parents. I hope the filmmakers do a follow up in 10 or 20 years so that we can all see what becomes of these experiments in Evangelical indoctrination.