We watched this documentary last night. This is pre-gay prostitute scandal w/ Ted Haggard. My husband watched it and said, "Extremists are the same everywhere." I found it incredibly disturbing. At one point in the documentary, the female minister expresses the hope that these children will be willing to sacrifice for the gospel like "kids in Palestine" who blow themselves up.
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I saw it too! Scared the crap out of my (Muslim) ass. Your husband is right: it's frightening, no matter where it occurs. The fatalism is beyond chilling..it's why I can't fully subscribe to an organized religion.
Extremism on any end is very dangerous and scary like humphrey said, I saw how the kids were writhing and screaming, claiming to have the holy ghost and talking about, 'America', 'religion' and 'the president' like they are adults. These kids are brainwashed and dont know what they are talking about. Its sick. The only thing an 8 year old boy should be thinking about, is how fast he can ride his bike, or when's the next time he can have ice cream.
I've seen this, It's really sad. That kid said "he feels yucky" when he sees a non christian. What kind of tolerance is that?? No kind.
Agree on all points said here...I think what struck me is how succint the kids are. I'm all for intelligent, well-spoken children, but it's tainted. Something doesn't feel good about a child saying, "God told me to go talk to that woman" (and try to save her). When you see the whole movie, the little boy in this clip says he was 'saved' at five.
Friends of mine watched that documentary and I'd say this is the "soft" part! I'd say many of the things they tell children would fall into the category of "abuse". Let's imagine someone tells you from your earliest years that you will burn forever if you don't behave in a particular way. That you should be ready to die for certain causes and other things like that... You'd press charges against that person for psychological torture... should I bring the Catholic church to court for threatening me?
:)) Nuri, it would be a class-action lawsuit!
It scared the hell out of me too,
did anybody notice when they were being home schooled by their barely literate ignoramous mother how politically and religiously driven her teaching about evolution and global warming was, the whole idea of home schooling your kids is creepy enough, it's like a guaranteed litmus test that when you ask someone, what school do your kids go to and he/she replies with the most judgemental and self righteous way possible "We home school them" that you'd know what a joy working with that person would be, luckily enough they're so few that I've met only two such people and they're even considered ridiculous by an average american, but that's in California, guess there'd be a lot more of them per capita in places like Missouri or Oklahoma.
I've known one or two people who home-schooled simply because they felt they could teach the material in a better manner, but I think you're right, Mohd. More people home school for content reasons.
What I fear about the 'average American' is that they are the leaning towards being the majority. They gave the statistic in the film about 1 in 4 Americans are evangelical. Seattle, much like California, shares different values from other parts of the country.
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