tristenjones-74208 This documentary is honestly a perfect representation of how manipulative people can be. Seriously, this documentary is just completely blasphemous!I couldn't tell if the kids in this film were learning about God, getting closer to God, or just getting brainwashed! This documentary is a great example how religious extremism of any kind is just evil, but it's another thing when you take away the innocence of a child.After watching this, I started to reflect on my whole life, realizing how great I had it, since I didn't have to endure this nonsense. I feel sorry for all the children that had to.If you want to give this review a check out, be my guest. You will be disturbed.

Woschi Fast forward... ten years later. Sommerkamp (yes, that's his real name) was one of the kid protagonists. He has abandoned evangelical Christianity, living with a group of spiritual seekers in Mount Shasta, California. His split from the evangelical world happening when his father came out as gay. He says he spent several years angry at the church, but has since discovered peace in eastern mysticism, quantum mechanics, and psychotropic drugs. "Was it child abuse? Yes and no," he said in a recent interview, about his time at Kids on Fire church camp. "I think they had the best of intentions, but I see it as sick people trying to treat sick people. It's their coping mechanism for figuring out why we're alive. I wouldn't trade that experience for anything, though, because it allowed me at such a young age to question my existence."

Lomedin This documentary starts with a fat woman (likely obese) talking about not being a lazy and fat Christian and to do some fastening. The rest of the film shows us the same type of nonsense and contradictory facts being babbled and acted by those so-called Jesus lovers.The documentary basically follows the life of this woman called Becky (or something like that), the summits she hosts, the bible camp she organizes and the children she, along with other adults, brainwashes and indoctrinates.It also gives evangelist leader and Bush administration adviser Ted Hagard some of the airtime he loves so much. Not as much as he loves drugs and having sex with young lads, as it was discovered later. 1% of the film is given to a Christian radio show host to express how crazy is the behaviour showed in the other 99% of the documentary. That is, a Christian uttering how absurd other christians are.Leaving aside the significance of this, the problem I find in this production is the lack of real criticism (or reason) of what is showing us. I'm aware that the documentary pretends to tell us how the fat woman and other delusional people are trying to mold children into what they are themselves, although it is annoying to have to simply cope with 90 minutes of stupidity and have to swallow it all raw without much of a word muttered clearly against it. Save the already mentioned radio host believer.Now, these people are obviously either delusional or stupid beyond comparison. Probably both. Unfortunately, this is nothing new and the world is literally littered by millions and millions of individuals who think that there is an invisible being up in the sky who loves us all but will damn you to eternal torture if you don't follow his orders. Go figure. I have to wonder what all this belief is doing in the quantum world when it comes to mind over matter. There are other millions who believe that there are more than one of these up there, although the 3 big monotheistic religions are the most dangerous and absurd ones. We all know America is a world on its own and the cradle of nut jobs and fruit cakes, however things have been getting out of hands for a while now. I am not afraid of schizophrenics, psychopaths or child molesters like the people in the documentary, yet I can see how this is very, very scary. The kids showed in this film are unmistakably mentally scarred, traumatized or otherwise mind-damaged for life thanks to the idiocy of adults who find children -quoute- "usable" for their religions. However, I don't feel sorry for the kids. They will grow up and shall bring destruction and even more stupidity upon this Earth. If any pity should be felt, all my sympathies go to the near-future planet and the non-human inhabitants who will have to suffer the consequences of these highly disturbed people and their legacy, all for an invented set of absurd ideas called christianism copied and twisted from an even older set of myths. If you are serious about learning how to fight back the imbecility of the world, I recommend Religulous, The Virus of faith or some other Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens work, for example. At least with those you see some active opposition to the "enemies of reason".As a final message to all those evangelists, anglicans, mormons and related crazy folks: if Jesus of Nazareth had been a real historical figure, he would nail himself to the cross once he knew what a big bunch of lunatics say and do in his name.

e-66929 Kids are sent to an Evangelical Christian camp to learn about Jesus and God. A couple of the kids are interviewed and some of the adults about their faith. All most all the kids would die for Jesus if they had too. All the kids had very emotional and intense experiences when they would go to church and shout to God. Most of the kids had ideas about faith from their parents and their pastor. Also the pastor and adults around them put ideas into the kids for instance, about their stance on abortion. The adults in this movie had a very key and powerful influence on the kids. Most of the kids hope to be the next Billy Graham, who was probably the most successful Evangelical Christian. The camp that the kids go to is called Kids on Fire. Becky Fisher is the founder of the camp and she talks about her mission to indoctrinate these kids about God.Throughout Jesus Camp the children would have very intense experiences with God, mostly in the church. This movie showed a lot of the other side of the life of Evangelical Christians and how some of the kids are taught a lot. Sometimes people would probably question the way that Evangelicals teach and indoctrinate children, and this movie was a pretty clear example of that. I did not know that their were really intense and faithful Christians who would actually sacrifice their life for God. These children are ingrained with the political side of religion, even though it is a camp to become more religious. This film strongly shows the religious political cultism of Evangelical Christians. This movie really opened up my mind to the worse side of religion. This movie had a kind of cult-like theme, in the way that the children were almost encrypted with morals and ideas. Jesus Camp showed me the kids who were drained from a normal childhood and I was pretty surprised about this. These kids who went to the camp did not have a fun and creative childhood, but instead had a faith intense childhood about God and Jesus.I always thought that Christianity was one of the less faithful religions in the world, but after watching this I think that it is one of the more faithful religions. Jesus Camp showed me the cult side of religion and kind of the bad side of religion. Becky Fisher and other adults in the movie were basically putting the ideas/words into the children's mouths. They kept saying that the kids were the ones who would change our world, but the adults were almost brainwashing the kids to be like them, so in that sense the kids were just like the generation of the adults just younger. I would give this movie a 5 out of 5. I really enjoyed watching this movie. It gave me another view on what was actually going on in the world and religion. The format of the movie was very interesting to watch, it really did open up my mind. Jesus Camp showed me the other side and the worse side of religion. I really enjoyed watching the interviews with the kids and how they truly felt about God. And all the things that they said were really mind-blowing. These kids really would die for God. I think that the kids and their thoughts, views, and ideas really made the movie what it is.