Jesus camp: A camp where children of the corn are
made. I’ll get straight to the point. I
am not a very religious person but I believe in tolerance and understanding. Two ideals not even approached in Jesus
Camp. Children that go to this camp are
thought the ways of Jesus Christ and that they have a mission: to bring Jesus
back to America. These children are brutally put through sermons where they’re
taught that there is nothing other than extreme Christianity and the fallacy of
science. The scary part is that they truly believe what they are being fed. These
children of the corn rock back and forth, some cry, others go straight up to strangers
and proclaim that Jesus loves them.
As the ministers put it, this generation is very
important; a beginning of a movement. These
ministers are creating “Jesus’ Army” to take back America in such a way that is
compared to Hitler’s Youth or the Taliban. There is no tolerance for other
religions or ideas in Jesus’ Army. The reigning-supreme idea is Christian nationality.
What happens when these children grow up? The children in Hitler’s youth didn’t have the
chance to grow up and they still released hell’s fury helping the Nazi’s
ethically cleanse away the Jews. The Taliban’s children grew up and flew planes
into the World Trade Center.
What about our own corn children in America with their ideas of intolerance and war? Will a faction of future America be so extreme it commits acts of terrorism against other countries? Will they try to cleanse out other religions to be obsolete? One can only hope not.
Works Cited:
Jesus Camp. Dir. Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. Magnolia Pictures, 2006. DVD.
I definitely see where you are coming from. The fact that these children are directed on a path full of hate and intolerance does not bode well for our future. The documentary highlights one of the negative effects of these extreme evangelical people which would be in politics. It frightens me that these children, who are essentially brainwashed, will be voting when they don't even think that evolution is the truth.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I really get what you're saying too. I hadn't really thought about how Kids On Fire was basically a militant training camp. The way they spoke about creating an "army" of "soldiers" to "take back America" could definitely be interpreted by a kid to mean the best way to spread the word of Christ is through violence. Becky Fischer literally says she "wants to see young people who are committed with the cause of Jesus Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam," after talking about how Islam children are ready to kill and die for their religion. I feel like it goes against everything that's Christian to imbue children with this kind of rhetoric.
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