In this film‚ titled “jesus camp”‚ we see religious fundamentalist indoctrination in action. In this film‚ it is shown how the organisers of the camp “Kids on Fire” plan on indoctrinating children in the camp with the “right message”.. They (especially Becky Fischer‚ a Pentecostal minister) want to create a parallel to muslim training camps in Palestine (which in reality don’t exist anymore than in any other place) but with the right message of evangelical Christians. In this film we see quite
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Idealization Depicted in Jesus Camp Final Essay Melanie Lannan March 24‚ 2017 RE 348 OC Student Number- 140225170 “Religious idealizations can be profoundly dangerous psychologically and socially. By insisting that their purity and truth are absolute‚ religions can split the world into camps of good and evil‚ can be adherents in a state of infantile dependence‚ and can generate a violent fanaticism‚”(Jones‚ 78). The film Jesus Camp‚ is a chilling documentary that shows various
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“Jesus Camp” A growing number of Evangelical Christians believe there is a revival underway in America that requires Christian youth to assume leadership roles in advocating the causes of their religious movement. “Jesus Camp” follows three home-schooled Missouri kids—12-year-old mullet-haired Levi‚ who was saved at 5; 10-year-old soldier ’s daughter Tory‚ who loves dancing to Christian heavy metal; and 9-year-old Rachael‚ who breathlessly approaches strangers to talk about Christ—to Pastor Becky
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yaya Ms. Van Amerong ENC 1101 March 10‚ 2012 JESUS CAMP OR BUST Jesus Camp is a documentary about the beliefs and rituals of the Evangelistic people all around America. Many people believe that these Evangelists are taking Christianity to a whole new level. In the movie‚ parents raise their kids to believe that being Christian is the only right thing. You are either a believer in God or not. In the documentary‚ the directors‚ Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady show how Evangelists have shifted far
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The second section of Jesus Camp gets a lot more dramatic and hard to watch. It begins with all the kids on their way to the church camp. The camp is lead by Becky Fisher who is in my mind a complete psycho. At the camp‚ Fischer stresses the need for children to purify themselves in order to be part of the "army of God". She strongly believes that children need to be in the forefront of turning America toward conservative Christian values and way. She also feels that Christians need to focus on
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Jesus Camp Jesus Camp is a documentary film about Christian families and their journey through life with their Evangelical Christian beliefs. The main portion of the film is about children within the Evangelical faith and their time spent at a summer bible camp. An evangelical Christian is a person who is called to share the good news‚ to preach God’s Word‚ and to set an example of purity and honesty. Even if these movements require political action. They seem to be very strict in their beliefs
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Jesus Camp “It is no wonder‚ with that kind of intense training and discipline‚ that those young people are ready to kill themselves for the cause of Islam. I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places‚ you know‚ because we have… excuse me‚ but we have the truth
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Laurie Grenier Dylan Kissane PHIL 130 Tuesday‚ April 7th 2015 Sociological issues displayed in Jesus Camp In 2009‚ more then 4.5 million evangelical memberships in the United States were recorded and between 2006 and 2013‚ the number of Evangelical Protestants –also called Born Again- rose by 11.2 percent. The evangelical population is part of a bigger group -the Protestants representing more then 50 percent of the American population- and represents almost 30 percent of this larger group (Frejka
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Jesus Camp is a powerful‚ mind-altering documentary that follows the journey of selected children as they spend a summer in the Kids on Fire summer camp run by Becky Fischer. In this camp strict practices of idealization and object-hunger are intensively practiced. Throughout lessons it has been learnt that the experience of religious idealization can be either healthy or unhealthy according to Jones as both differentiate in growth and maturity‚ the ability to transmute internalizations and whether
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seems like everything in Revelations is coming true. We need Jesus now more than ever. The opening scene of the documentary was very misleading: just think… if you were an “outsider” looking in… and had no idea what Christianity or who this‚ Jesus person‚ they keep talking about was. You would think this woman is crazy‚ and she is manipulating these kids. Well that’s exactly how they feel. Fischer is emphasizing that they must fight for Jesus but also accusing the Muslim race for teaching their kids
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