Jesus Camp - Oscar Nominated Documentary

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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

The one person I know who loved it also loved the secret, so I'm suspicious

I liked Jesus Camp quite a lot, and I wouldn't touch "The Secret" with a 90 foot pole.

Just to add a bit of fine distinction, the nuttiness on display here is not really fundamentalist so much as spirit-filled charismatic. (There is some crossover. Both groups share many of the same theological and political beliefs, but the emotionally charged spectacle of the charismatics is pretty much anathema to the Baptist type fundies.)

My own childhood included some of the charismatic stuff seen here. (Yes, at age twelve, I used to speak in tongues.) I was never put into a situation quite as coercive and manipulative as seen in this movie. I, too, was disturbed by how frequently these kids were driven to tears, often goaded there by Pastor Becky Fischer's haranguing insistence that there must be SOMETHING sinful in their lives that they should feel bad about.

Jesus Camp made me happy I'm an atheist.

For those wanting a dose of Fundamentalist wackiness, also in a documentary that is admirably dispassionate, I recommend Hell House, a look at the grotesquely judgemental spook house attractions put on at certain fundie churches every Halloween.