Jesus Camp

I never was very fond of summer camp, but this one sounds like a real horror to me. It sounds like a documentary about how they make Republicans (hat tip to Jesus Politics):

From SILVERDOCS 2005 award-winning filmmakers Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (THE BOYS OF BARAKA) comes this extraordinary film about the newest generation of Christian evangelicals, and the parents, teachers, preachers, and counselors who are committed to inculcating them from the start with radical fundamentalist beliefs. The film exposes a startlingly sizeable generation of young kids growing up in a somewhat alternate-universe from mainstream culture. They are largely home-schooled and raised on a creationist curriculum, with extracurricular activities chiefly dedicated to converting non-believers.

Summers are spent at Becky Fischer’s “Kids on Fire” camp in Devil’s Lake, North Dakota, where they make new like-minded friends, pray together, and gain inspiration from Fischer’s hyperbolic sermons.

Often disregarded as extremist and marginal, this probing documentary reveals just how pervasive and potent this presumably “fringe” culture is, and the impact it may have-and has already had-on American politics.

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