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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.
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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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.
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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?