So Usable

This chilling vignette came to me from Maud Newton*, who went to see the movie Jesus Camp so that I don't have to:

Becky Fischer, the leader and mastermind of the actual Jesus Camp, believes in indoctrinating kids as early as possible — preferably starting before the age of seven. Palestinian children are ready to blow themselves up for Islam, she says, and American children should be prepared to make equivalent sacrifices.

“I can go into a playground of kids that don’t know anything about Christianity, lead them to the Lord in a matter of, just no time at all, and just moments later they can be seeing visions and hearing the voice of God, because they’re so open. They are so usable in Christianity,” she tells the filmmakers.

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* Maud Newton, "On Jesus Camp (and going to one)", 17 January 2006.]

Posted on January 22, 2007 at 16.23 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Briefly Noted

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Monday, 22 January 2007 at 17.28
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    Additional proof there that just about anything can be exploited and perverted, including children and religion. What a piece of work.

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