I was tooling around looking for trailers and whatnot as I usually do at the end of my day and I found something that just made me, well, physically ill.
Here is a movie called...Jesus Camp. LINK
Now there's no doubt in my mind these people know what they are doing. The sick thing is they think what they are doing is the RIGHT thing to be doing. These people aren't idiots. They know EXACTLY what they are doing. Nothing in this world is more malleable then the mind of a child. None of these children have a choice in what they believe in. And this isn't like trying to make a child a great piano player or some other activity by starting them when they're young. This is something on such a larger level then that and it permeates through their whole lives because they believe it to be not only righteous and true, but the ONLY truth. These children aren't taught to think for themselves and question what world their brought up into. I'm all for people believing in what they choose to believe in (no matter how ridiculous to me it may seem). I don't care if you worship mutherfucking Gonzo from the Muppets. My problem is these children don't have a choice. They don't know any better to ask questions, to find things out for themselves to confirm or deny their beliefs. And by confirm or deny I don't mean "prove" or "disprove" the existance of God because to do so would take the most important part of religion out of the equation...faith. You can have faith in something and still question it with a mind that's of your own thinking. Again, these children never had a choice and it creeps me the fuck out.
"You know, HItler had pieces of flare that he made the Jews wear." - Ron Livingston
Here is a movie called...Jesus Camp. LINK
Now there's no doubt in my mind these people know what they are doing. The sick thing is they think what they are doing is the RIGHT thing to be doing. These people aren't idiots. They know EXACTLY what they are doing. Nothing in this world is more malleable then the mind of a child. None of these children have a choice in what they believe in. And this isn't like trying to make a child a great piano player or some other activity by starting them when they're young. This is something on such a larger level then that and it permeates through their whole lives because they believe it to be not only righteous and true, but the ONLY truth. These children aren't taught to think for themselves and question what world their brought up into. I'm all for people believing in what they choose to believe in (no matter how ridiculous to me it may seem). I don't care if you worship mutherfucking Gonzo from the Muppets. My problem is these children don't have a choice. They don't know any better to ask questions, to find things out for themselves to confirm or deny their beliefs. And by confirm or deny I don't mean "prove" or "disprove" the existance of God because to do so would take the most important part of religion out of the equation...faith. You can have faith in something and still question it with a mind that's of your own thinking. Again, these children never had a choice and it creeps me the fuck out.
"You know, HItler had pieces of flare that he made the Jews wear." - Ron Livingston