What's wrong with Jesus Camp?

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Kaye

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I here many people saying things like: "Christians brainwash there kids!". To me it seems like "indoctrination" is the same as telling your kids what you think. If you can tell your kid to be successful in life,can I tell my kid what to worship without a lot of flak?
 
1Cor.14:34-35 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.

35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
 
They tell them the worst things, and don't allow their kids to think differently. They don't give them freedom of choice. They don't tell them to tell fact from fiction, but to tell their retarded version of Christianity from logic.

You can tell your kid to worship Jesus, but you can't make him pray. (can't as in "shouldn't").
(horses and water)
 
Telling your kid what to worship and to be successful in life is not indoctrination. Turning them into shouting evangelical preachers who preach hate: no THAT'S what's being done as brainwashing.
 
I wouldn't try to teach my kids by using guilt and fear. Besides, I will teach but give them the opportunity to discover the truth on their own. Jesus Camp only pushes lies onto kids.
 
Jesus Camp went way beyond simply telling kids what their parents think. It used scare tactics, bullying, fear and peer pressure to program those poor kids. They weren't simply being given information, they were being programmed to act as conservative evangelical foot soldiers.

Yeah, the worship of the cardboard cutout of Bush was one thing that sent it way over the top.
 
I just think they need to ham it up a little more.

The methods used at Jesus Camp should be increased and there ought to be more loud holy fervor, etc.

Also why not add extreme charades and divine denunciations of atheism, and the kids can see how exciting religion can be.
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I'd say that it depends what you tell them. If you tell them that the stories in the Bible are one version of how the universe and life were created, the stories in the Qu'ran are another version, scientific theories are another etc etc, then let them make up their own mind which is the truth after weighing up the evidence for themselves then no-one can fault you.


Edit: You would have to teach your children all of this WITHOUT bias though. If you teach them that if they don't follow what it says in the Bible they will go to hell then they are being threatened.
I've watched some 'Jesus Camp' stuff on line now and if the videos show anything that actually happens (which seems likely) they go well beyond teaching children the stories - it looks very much like brainwashing to me!
 
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