Child Preachers

[Faith No More]

...and it takes away the fun moments of their childhood.

This is my biggest problem with child preachers. Kids should be having fun, not proselytizing.

[Rayaan]

Right you are, Rayaan.....( did I ever tell you how much I prefer "Rayaan" to "Spider?" ) and that's true of the adults.

With kids it just looks sick.

Yes, you told me that already Min. So thanks. But I don't want you to say that anymore.

[Kayenneh]

Child abuse. At least the catholics only fuck up their assholes. These nutters fuck up their brains.

Actaully I can't quite agree with you on this one. I dare say that molesting and rape fucks up your mind too..

But yeah, I get the point. One might just as well give children hard drugs and say that it's not bad at all for their brains. Fucking idiots..

[The Grand Nudger]

Children can be encouraged to perform. Perhaps the drilling and recitals are a bit much, but people do this with musical prodigies, it was done to me with math and things like that. I don't know if the pressure to perform, in and of itself, qualifies as abuse. Filling a kids head with this kind of charismatic nonsense is possibly retarding the child's intellectual growth. That's bad enough, doesn't have to be abuse.

[Welsh cake]

I blame the parents (who else?).

Be interested to learn what our resident apologists think .

Apologists think? o_0

[frankiej]

I just threw up a little... oh no...wait... a lot.

[Rev. Rye]

I don't know that I'd go so far as abuse. It's definitely sinister.

Well, all things considered, I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that most of the kid preachers on this show ended up losing their faith as soon as they came of age. At least that's what happened to Marjoe Gortner.

P.S., I watched the videos and it seems like a less funny version of the "Beat Kids" segments from Wonder Showzen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR4KJZHOIOU

[Judas BentHer]

They remind me of what the kids in the Documentary, "Jesus Camp" would look like when they "found their calling", after weeping into the camera's for that movie while saying they felt so blessed to have been saved from their sins and washed clean by the blood of the lamb...while they were five years old!
Oh yes, there's a lot to repent at that age boy.

Then again, these kids are what the Hagee's, the Falwell's, the Robertson's, looked like before they were rich and famous. Now it's simply a matter of installing the con artistry early, so the tax free bucks rolls in sooner.

Can you imagine your kid going to school, if these children do go to dread satanic public school, which they actually could so they could install themselves in the midst of the devil's work shop and free as many souls as possible from the grasp of evolution, sex education and the secular push, with these tiny Christers?
The bullies would probably beat them senseless using their own Bible.