Readers in the UK might be interested to hear that the Oscar-nominated documentary Jesus Camp is showing on Channel 4 tonight at 11.05pm.
The film profiles the Kids on Fire School of Ministry, a Pentecostal summer camp in North Dakota where fire and brimstone pastor Becky Fisher trains children to join the "army of God".
I haven't seen it, but it was critically acclaimed when it was released in 2006 and it looks suitably disturbing – see the trailer below:
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Jesus Camp on TV tonight
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Posted by Paul Sims at Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Labels: child abuse, cinema, documentary, fundamentalism, Jesus Camp
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I post on a lot of American new media sites and the stuff I see there is very disturbing. Just as disturbing as the fact that around 50% of Americans do not see anything wrong with Jesus Camp and similar promotions.
I managed to conjure a comic article out of the programme, but it is quite dark humour.
religion = child abuse
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