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Anyone here seen the documentary Jesus Camp?
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Anyone here seen the documentary Jesus Camp?
I have to watch it for my Sociology of Religion class, and it is cringy as fuck!

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RE: Anyone here seen the documentary Jesus Camp?
I think I saw a video of it on Bible Reloaded a long time ago. One of those fundy indoctrination camps. At least they're not kidnapping kids, and taking them to another country, like Kidnapped for Christ. I don't think. Still, it's creepy. Children literally crying with emotion, and all that. I was raised christian, and I count myself lucky it was an easygoing community.
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10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: Anyone here seen the documentary Jesus Camp?
I haven't watched the whole thing, just clips.

And, frankly, it's sickening.
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RE: Anyone here seen the documentary Jesus Camp?
I guess my first question is why? What does the instructor state as the purpose of watching, what is the value?

Do you watch other nut job vids from other religions?
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RE: Anyone here seen the documentary Jesus Camp?
(March 28, 2017 at 8:55 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: I guess my first question is why? What does the instructor state as the purpose of watching, what is the value?

Do you watch other nut job vids from other religions?

Well to start it's a Sociology of Religion course. Secondly, we have watched other documentaries on cults as well. We watched one on Scientology, the Amish and another called Kumare' in which a guy demonstrates how easy it is to start a cult and get followers.

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RE: Anyone here seen the documentary Jesus Camp?
(March 28, 2017 at 9:10 pm)It_Was_me Wrote:
(March 28, 2017 at 8:55 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: I guess my first question is why? What does the instructor state as the purpose of watching, what is the value?

Do you watch other nut job vids from other religions?

Well to start it's a Sociology of Religion course. Secondly, we have watched other documentaries on cults as well. We watched one on Scientology, the Amish and another called Kumare' in which a guy demonstrates how easy it is to start a cult and get followers.

At the moment there's a rising controversy here in NZ regarding a cult called "Gloriavale".

Haven't read much about it but it seems to have everything other cults have:  Forced marriage, sexual abuse, locking people up as punishment, shunning of former members, and huge amounts of money.
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RE: Anyone here seen the documentary Jesus Camp?
I could only get through a few minutes of those despicable scumbags.
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RE: Anyone here seen the documentary Jesus Camp?
(March 28, 2017 at 9:57 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I could only get through a few minutes of those despicable scumbags.

Lucky you! I have to watch the entire thing then write a paper on it.

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RE: Anyone here seen the documentary Jesus Camp?
I've seen it, I bought the DVD, and at least some of the people involved have changed from 10 years ago: Becky Fisher is no longer holding summer camps; Andrew (the kid who admitted he had struggles with his faith) has given up on Evangelical Christianity and moved on to the relatively less horrifying obsessions of Quantum mechanics, Eastern Mysticism, and psychotropic drugs; and Levi at least has the decency to cut off that rat-tail.
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RE: Anyone here seen the documentary Jesus Camp?
I did, at least in part. That's some time I'll never get back right there....
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