A Country Bumpkin Offering Sunshine

The trailer of Jesus Camp



N and I went to see Jesus Camp at Parkway last night. We have been very curious about this movie since we had a pretty serious discussion with my parents-in-law on this movie during a dinner while this documentary was newly released. One review written by Neva Chonin in the SF Chronicle made the Jesus summer camp sound awfully insane. Our discussion was focused on if those Evangelical Christian kids prayed to George W. Bush or not. It seems to be far out if those kids did. Christian fundamentalists can be very extreme but not crazy enough to pray to a cardboard cutout of Bush. We were so relieved to find out those Christian kids only welcomed Bush’s image to join their camp but didn't pray to his cutout. Good lord.

Does it really matter if Bush was prayed “to”? Yes, indeed. No matter which religious group did it, praying TO Bush would mean that group of people had gone wild and took him as whatever God people worship to, which would be completely screwed up. Ironically, Ted Haggard , who just resigned his position from the National Association of Evangelicals due to his religious misconducts of drug use and homosexuality, also appeared in Jesus Camp and prayed for George W. Bush. Toward the end of the film, a kid holding a sign saying “Jesus is God” walked around. The whole religion is twisted. It is sad that those home schooled kids have no better education to choose what to believe and already are trained for politicians’ nonsense wars.

I am not going to give away more details, in case you would like to see it. If you’ve already worried Christian Fundamentalism could take the country to an unbearable conservative direction, you could be worried more after seeing this one.