Comments on: Jesus Camp: Brainwashed in the Blood – or Is it Spin?

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:40:30 +0000

I was wondering what has happened to Levi. He was so impressive and it’s been 3 years or so since the movie–so I guess he is aroound 15 or 16. What is he up to–still preaching?

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Jesus Camp - CMCentral.com Forum — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:28:18 +0000

[...] QUOTE(dot.the.i @ Jul 17 2008, 11:14 AM) I think it is worth checking out for Christians, to understand how we are viewed by many in the culture. If we bubble ourselves from any negative thought concerning us, we just deceive ourselves. Knowing how the enemy [the devil, not the people] is framing the message will make our arguments that much stronger.I agree!Hear is a pretty good rebuttal to the movie:http://tatumweb.com/blog/2006/09/21/jesus-camp-brainwashed [...]

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:19:35 +0000

I have read through most of this, not the comments though, and have one quick point: Evangelicalism is “new”. It is only ~150-200 years old. Compared to Christianity as a whole, Evangelicalism is a tiny baby.

By: trout

trout — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:53:30 +0000

One of the directors (I forget which one) has criticized the lumping together of Evangicals due to this movie. He claims it was only meant to represent the extreme, “lunatic” fringe inside of Christianity

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Jesus Camp - Documentary - Essential Baby — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:56:17 +0000

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blog.myspace.com/randommyspacename — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:26:03 +0000

« After many of my friends were raving about the scariness of the film Jesus Camp, I finally watched it a few weeks ago. Yes, there were some bizarre scenes where kids are speaking in tongues and taking anti-abortion stances, but are these kinds of activities normal among evangelicals? I came across a review of Jesus Camp from an evangelical who doesn't believe these activities are normal. His review is also one of the few to discuss the political motivation behind the film. … … I think Mike's role in the film was very obvious. The film producers were supposed to represent the liberal atheists, Becky Fischer and her camp represented the radical christian fundamentalists, and Papantonio was supposed to represent the middle ground. Mike is definately not the middle ground, his role was probably planned from the begining, and the producers found the most extreme Christian group they could find so they could make an association between crazy fundamentalists and those who might question science. That's why they included creationism and global warming in their movie (even though there is a good deal of secular skepticism to global warming and evolution).… » [MORE]

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Jesus Camp and BlogRodent on Word-FM via BlogRodent — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:28:59 +0000

[...] Evangelical fear-mongering (start here if you don’t know what I’m talking about: “Jesus Camp: Brainwashed in the Blood — or Is it Spin?“). At least that was before the Ted Haggard fracas blew [...]

By: NC

NC — Wed, 16 May 2007 22:25:19 +0000

Speaking as one who is a Christian but not a charismatic, I found it rather interesting to note the misinterpretation of “warfare” in this documentary. I wondered if the film-makers really thought this meant literal warfare and didn’t ask someone what was meant by it, or if they deliberately didn’t include references to the whole “not against flesh and blood, but against powers, principalities, etc” thing in order to boost ratings? I suppose I, as Christian, can understand “charistmatic language” more easily than someone not well-versed in the Bible, but it puzzles me that any person who really tried to understand would manage to misinterpret something that badly.

That being said, I’ll say about this the same thing I said about the whole Dan Brown fad — at least Jesus is on peoples’ radar screens!

By: Berni

Berni — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:35:11 +0000

I just read your comment on Jesus Camp. And I am speechless. But I got over it. To quote you: “I don’t think these kids are any more ‘brainwashed’ by Becky Fischer than any other modern pre-teen is brainwashed by MTV”.

You might be true. But that’s no argument.

Right here you moved on to that strange level of Becky Fisher, when she justifies her way with the fact, that children on the other side of the planet are drawn into koran schools. I think you lost your argumentation stream somewhere. Liberals don’t get you, but you don’t get them either. But you think so and they don’t.

By: Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:58:53 +0000

Thanks Rich. It was good dialoguing.