... the Hell?

[fenderlove]

Okay, I'm forcing myself to watch this "Jesus Camp" documentary on A&E.

It's been on for bearly 30 minutes, and I'm already creeped out. Encouraging kids to speak in tongues and flail on the floor, it's downright cultish! One kid gets positive attention for it, then other kids start doing it, and the lady claims her ministry is working and actually getting children to appreciate Jesus. They're five bloody years old! These kids are going to need some serious therapy when they get college-age.
What does that director lady talk about first? Not about Jesus! It's "Go buy this book in the gift shop; it'll teach your kids to be good evangelical Christians and help introduce their kids to Christ!" I.E., go buy our book and get your kids to get their friends into our cult so that they can buy our book too! Don't forget to pay thousands of dollars to come to our camp; bring the whole family! More money for us!
Oh, my dear God! Lady, don't tell your kid that global warning doesn't exist without knowing all the facts. You're giving him one piece of a major issue! Sweet Mary and all the unwed teen mothers, this is why our children are screwed up, sheltering them, not allowing them to make their own decisions and conclusions about the world, secluding them from the entire world except an itty bitty fraction of people who believe exactly the same as you do.
KID! STOP WASTING JESUS' TIME BY PRAYING FOR A STRIKE IN BLOODY BOWLING! THERE ARE CHILDREN STARVING!
Okay, that's it. I'm turning the channel 'cause I'm getting riled. Makes me glad to be an Albigensian.

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[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

God doesn't like quiet churchs. He doesn't go to all of them, you know. If you worship quietly, he doesn't want to be there.

eta - i see you turned it off, so you missed the above part.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, I somehow could not look away... It's awful. I did see creepy little girl though and her explanation that those who do not speak in tongues and scream and carry on in church don't have God. This is like the creepiest thing I've ever seen. Violence has no place in a church, breaking things and screaming with these kids having conniption fits in tears. It's just disturbing. Religion, no matter what religion, should uplift you and renew your hope in the world, not make you feel guilty, shamed, and hurting. The radio guy at the beginning was right- there is no compassion in people like that.
I love how no one has picked up a Bible in this entire thing. They would rather "tell" the children what they should believe. Only the little boy who said that he questioned the existance of God was actually reading from the Bible. That little boy is a brave little soul in that world. He might actually have a chance to make it in this world.
I want to throw Leviticus in those preachers' faces and say, "Do you eat shrimp!?! If so, you're going to hell! You eat meat on a Friday?! You're going to hell! You cut your hair, lady! You're going to hell!"

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

WORD. These people scare the crap outta me.

You know what's interesting? When they're in 'church' praying - they look like extras from Harry Potter. Like they've transformed Hogwarts skills into prayer skills.

I'm still watching: "god formed you in your mother's womb. You're not just a piece of protoplasm, whatever that is..."

Yeah - if you don't know science, you can't understand crap.

And..ICON.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Icon indeed! How can they question that it was God's plan to have abortion in the world to counteract the evil that is rape and incest and abuse? Maybe they should pray for God to make the "blessed" government leaders give more money to fund social services so that more children who were given up at birth (because of the parent being unable to care for it because of rising costs of living to do the war or because the child was conceived from rape or incest) would enter a children's welfare system where they wouldn't be raped or sexually abused or just plain lost in the mass number of children in an overwhelmed political structure. Maybe those kids should be praying for that.
It kills me that they frickin' LIE to these kids. America was founded on a beer run, for pity's sake. The pilgrims might have made it to the Caribbean if they hadn't run out of mead. Maybe they should have told them that. Or better yet, tell it that it was founded in the name of ODIN! I mean, the Vikings were here first. Oh, wait, American was founded on greed! The English and the Spanish were here looking for gold.
I want to tell that director lady, "Hey, it ain' the devil causing your equipment to malfunction. It's God trying to stop you from spreading a message of hate and fear!"

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Here's a question: if god is omnipotent, and yet he allows abortion to occur. Why?

They are LYING. And dude - talk about separation between church and state? They're TALKING POLITICS FROM THE PULPIT. That means they shouldn't get tax breaks. Period.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Oh, they don't want seperation of church and state. They want them to be intertwined forever and love each other strong... as long as it's the "right church" 'cause there's only one. *rolls eyes*
Abortion is from the devil apparently, but God is supposed to be strong than the devil, so God should just make everyone who believes in abortion just not believe... Oh, but God doesn't work that way. He's got his "warriors" on earth to blow up abortion clinics and beat people to death and shoot innocent children in drive-bys on adortion doctors' homes. That's all right though. God told them to do it.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

"If the evangelicals vote, they'll sway every election"

Oh...my.

Huckabee, here we come

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

"A lot of people die for God... and they're not afraid." Yeah, those people who died in the crusades were really fighting for God... They weren't the second sons of the nobility desperate for land and riches or anything. They totally didn't rape every woman and pillage holy monuments that would have been holy to Christ.
The difference between a martyr and a self-righteous bastard is that true martyrs didn't go out looking for what got them killed. It happened to them because they were just going about their business. Please, and let's not forget how killing was done during the Spanish Inquisition and even during the Renaissance "in the name of God" to get rid of Jewish people in Europe. That was totally for God and had absolutely nothing to do with Christian people being angry that they couldn't charge interest on money lending.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Whatever happened to Christ being the Prince of Peace? When I used to go to church, we used to sing that song "Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me." What's wrong with that?

These people are training a fundie christian taliban.

The lies! the lies! "The majority of Americans are conservative" - this is an alternate universe he lives in, right?

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

One of these nutjob protestors lived across the street from the house i grew up in. He used to be arrested all the time (1970s-80s). Eventually they put the house in their daughter's name, so legal bills couldn't be used to take it from them.

Last I heard, he was in jail. His sons and daughter? Now athiests.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Oh, wait, I forgot the "godless heathens" were here in America first.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

We done fixed that!

[havesomecocoa.livejournal.com]

lol People like that give me the fear!

What channel is it on?

[havesomecocoa.livejournal.com]

Nevermind! Found it on A&E!

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

It's so distrubing! It's fucking scary!