So who has watched Jesus Camp?

[gretchenindisguise]

I saw it on Netflix today. And now I'm watching it since the kiddo is asleep.

Very holiday apropos, no?

[Nonny]

That documentary is more terrifying than any horror movie I've ever seen.

[sushi]

We have an annual viewing on Halloween.

[textbookcase]

Super scary and crazy!

[wambam]

I have.

[mcmel]

I have and it's a tragically sad movie.

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I almost watched this last night. I may just check it out this afternoon.

[cherryvalance]

It was one of the most terrifying things I've seen, in all honesty. My heart broke for that little girl that bursts into tears while praying during the abortion presentation. Wasn't that the girl who made sure she wasn't "dancing for the flesh"? And the homeschooling scene? OMG rage.

The kid Levi has an open FB page, but there isn't too much about the other kids and where they are now.

[winnied]

Growing up in that part of the country (like, 20 min from many of those scenes) as a Roman Catholic was not enjoyable.

[kristie]

I have seen it, and can say that I feel like I grew up in an environment very similar to that. It's why I have a hard time going to any church without feeling rage. It made me sick to my stomach watching it.

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I am obsessed with this doc. OBSESSED.

[leeluu]

Okay, off to see if its on Netflix...

[leeluu]

So I'm two minutes in and it reminds me of the christian compound in True Blood.

[Jalapeñomel]

Now you need to watch Hell House. Crazy stuff, all of it.

[thelurkylulu]

Is this a documentary?

[BAMFMrsB]

The part where the kids are worshiping the cardboard cutout of Dubya makes me twitchy. What the ever loving eff!?! Creepy McCreepersons.

[gretchenindisguise]

Apr 20, 2014 10:54:11 GMT -5 thelurkylulu said:

Is this a documentary?

Yes. It's on Netflix and is from 2006.

I really want an update on the kids.

[sushi]

Apr 20, 2014 14:00:54 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

Apr 20, 2014 10:54:11 GMT -5 thelurkylulu said:

Is this a documentary?

Yes. It's on Netflix and is from 2006.

I really want an update on the kids.

They're all still pretty much Jesus y. Levi has a you tube channel of his preaching. Rachael went to a public high school for a bit (and is still smug about how Jesus makes her better than her heathen peers). Tori hasn't said much beyond losing and finding good again.

[psychmom]

Yes and I can also attest to it's accuracy. It's startling. Now I can't even step into a church without feeling creeped out.

[furby]

I'm fascinated. Off to find it on Netflix...

[RoxMonster]

I have. It is so crazy and made me sad.

[queenbee]

I just finished watching it. I went to a very similar camp for several years as a child, it wasn't Pentecostal so there was not speaking in tongues but absent that an identical documentary could have been made at this camp. It's so sad to look back and think what a brainwashed child I was (and how brainwashed the rest of my family still is).

[Jermys]

It reminds me of my brother's church.

[wambam]

I wish I had watched this movie before I was obsessed with fundie culture. It would have been far more shocking.

[kmaxxx]

I was raised fundamentalist and I had PTSD-like flashbacks while watching it. I remember sobbing after being told all my friends were going to hell.

On a more amusing note, I remember a Doobie Brothers shirt being burned. It made a lot more sense many years later when I found out what a doobie was.

One of the more terrifying topics introduced during my Jesus Camp experience was backward masking. Anyone else remember that gem!?

[birdistheword]

I have seen it before, but now I'm re-watching it. My first thought is "Of course this is in Missouri." I see so much of this kind of thing here. I don't know how I became such a liberal heathen.

[gretchenindisguise]

Yeah. I grew up in an area where apparently this existed. My parents weren't religious and I started going with my fried to a Methodist church.

I went with her family and eventually joined the faith. Then her family left and started going to an evangelical church

I went a few times, but it was very similar to what was portrayed in the documentary. On my 16th birthday she gave me a Jesus fish eating a Darwin fish to put on my car, and as a counter balance to my moms Darwin fish. Yeah. I stopped going there soon there after.

[gretchenindisguise]

And I also feel the need to defend KC and MO in general. Not everyone there is like this. There are certainly more rural areas, but also more liberal areas.

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Just started watching it now. Freaky. This isn't the happy church. Such sad looking children.

[birdistheword]

Apr 20, 2014 21:14:48 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

And I also feel the need to defend KC and MO in general. Not everyone there is like this. There are certainly more rural areas, but also more liberal areas.

Yes. The area where I grew up and currently live is very conservative, but the state isn't only full of militant evangelicals.

Gretchen, are you from here too?