Did anyone see this documentary? If not, if you're up for getting creeped out, check out Jesus Camp.
Here's a review: Jesus Camp, a Magnolia Pictures release directed by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing -- who previously made The Boys of Baraka together -- is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 documentary about a "charismatic Christian" summer camp for children who spend their summers learning and practicing their "prophetic gifts" and being taught that they can "take back America for Christ."[1] According to the distributor, it "doesn't come with any prepackaged point of view", and it tries to be "an honest and impartial depiction of one faction of the evangelical Christian community”. [2]
My reaction was that these people were anti-constituion and anti-democratic. The seperation of church and state is there so that we can avoid such a scary, backward mentality from guiding social and political policy. Dogma has no place with the enlightenment principles that guided the making of the constituion. To see this blur between church and state is alarming and unsettling. To see that adults are taking mallable children and indoctrinating them through brain-wash and not giving these children room to explore their own autonomy and values, it's just downright "sinful."
If it's true that the evangelical christian vote determines elections, the future does indeed look bleak.
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