ivanho
02-20-2008, 11:13 PM
:eek:
My wife stumbled on to this...
Check it out!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_EKHK1C2IE
Check this link out to read the whole colom
http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2006/08/american_madras.html
documentary called Jesus Camp. It focuses on a woman preacher (Becky Fischer) who indoctrinates children in a summer camp in North Dakota. Right wing political agendas and slogans are mixed with born again rituals that end with most of the kids in tears. Tears of release and joy, they would claim — the children are not physically abused. The kids are around 9 or 10 years old, recruited from various churches, and are pliant willing receptacles. They are instructed that evolution is being forced upon us by evil Godless secular humanists, that abortion must be stopped at all costs, that we must form an “army” to defeat the Godless influences, that we must band together to insure that the right judges and politicians get into the courts and office and that global warming is a lie. (This last one is a puzzle — how did accepting the evidence for climate change and global warming become anti-Jesus? Did someone simply conflate all corporate agendas with Jesus and God and these folks accept that? Would Jesus drive an SUV? Is every conclusion responsible scientists make now suspect?)
This is why I strongly believe in a division of church and state
Seems the christian thing to do....:confused:
I guess I'm one of those "Godless secular Humanists" ;)
My wife stumbled on to this...
Check it out!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_EKHK1C2IE
Check this link out to read the whole colom
http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2006/08/american_madras.html
documentary called Jesus Camp. It focuses on a woman preacher (Becky Fischer) who indoctrinates children in a summer camp in North Dakota. Right wing political agendas and slogans are mixed with born again rituals that end with most of the kids in tears. Tears of release and joy, they would claim — the children are not physically abused. The kids are around 9 or 10 years old, recruited from various churches, and are pliant willing receptacles. They are instructed that evolution is being forced upon us by evil Godless secular humanists, that abortion must be stopped at all costs, that we must form an “army” to defeat the Godless influences, that we must band together to insure that the right judges and politicians get into the courts and office and that global warming is a lie. (This last one is a puzzle — how did accepting the evidence for climate change and global warming become anti-Jesus? Did someone simply conflate all corporate agendas with Jesus and God and these folks accept that? Would Jesus drive an SUV? Is every conclusion responsible scientists make now suspect?)
This is why I strongly believe in a division of church and state
Seems the christian thing to do....:confused:
I guess I'm one of those "Godless secular Humanists" ;)