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There’s an idyllic paradise in middle-America where deranged adults are brainwashing impressionable kids in the name of Jesus Christ and George W. Bush. This place is the focus of the new documentary Jesus Camp. This place is not alone either, there are 1000’s of them scattered across the United States and the fundamentalist evangelical movement has become the ‘most powerful demographic when it’s time to vote’.

The camp featured in the documentary is co-ordinated by the ‘Children’s Evangelical Minister Becky Fischer at the Evangelical Camp for Kids. She opens one of her ‘sermons’ with: “Kids, this is a sick old world - let’s fix it!”
Fischer, of course, believes that the Earth is decadent and that it doesn’t matter if we abuse it or use up its resources because the Rapture is coming when Christ will rescue us all. The planet isn’t forever (in a sense) in her eyes! She continues: “Muslims train their children…so must we!” When the children are on their feet (she uses the ‘crescendo’ method like Hitler) she gets the children to chant: “God, I’m here to be trained. I’ll do what you want me to do. I’ll give my blood for Jesus.”

The hysteria begins, and seeing this Fischer instructs: “Let’s pray in tongues” as she bursts into a chorus of Hebrew. The children join in and many begin to cry, apparently overwhelmed by the ‘power of the lord’. The room is eventually filled with screaming, crying and gesticulating wave of hysterical children eagerly joined by their parents. Fischer later brags about how she can lead children to the ‘Lord’ in minutes and how they train converted kids to influence their friends. There’s repeated use of the verb (an action) ‘to train’.

(Children’s Evangelist Becky Fischer - Stop This Woman Now!)

Many of the children receive home-schooling, except in backward states where Creationism is taught alongside Darwinism as a science. They use creationism videos to teach the allegorical story of Genensis as a science! Charles Darwin based his theory on research that he carried out at the Galapagos Isles; Genesis is an oral narrative that has been passed on and altered for 1000’s of years. You want proof? Go and read the Epic of Gilgamesh or the Enuma Elish, both of which predate even Judaism and contain Noah (Una-Apishtu) and the Flood, along with Adam and Eve.

“Creationism is the only possible answer…Science doesn’t prove anything” they preach. Apparently, God wrote it all down so that man doesn’t have to debate any issues; and seen as God’s word is final, the case is closed. They have borrowed the tem ‘intelligent design’ to cover the argument but this is not true. Intelligent Design is the whole “God was an astronaut” idea made popular by the Beatles. It relates to the works, some would argue pseudo-science, of Sitchen and Von Daniken who believe that an alien race manipulated the Cro-Magnon genome to use humans as slaves eg. Sumerian, Aztec, Inca, Egyptian myths all speak of this etc. The Fundamentalists have used this to their own ends and blended it with the account in Genesis. Shaping a child’s world-view in this way is dangerous, immoral and so very, very wrong.

In another sequence, Fischer makes ‘all the ‘phonies’’ – those who pretend to be normal, or behave as themselves, at school - stand at the front. This is a ‘name and shame’ tactic that causes the kids to cry with guilt. The supervisors monitor the crowd looking for those who are not getting fully involved in the brainwashing. You can see the utter confusion and anxiety in the children’s’ faces. This anxiety is a recurring feature: it’s as though the false version of the world preached (forced?) into their heads clashes with the reality that they occupy, and so, they are constantly battling internally with their own identities and their own world view. Is this not the beginnings of psychosis? One of the children reveals the depth of this influence to the camera, a Freudian slip if you will: “We as christians …I mean I… I believe in that.”

The seminars are purposely engineered to appeal to children: they mix their distorted Biblical teachings with popular-culture, such as a “J.C.” rap anthem and high profile media packages. The process is fun and accessible so the kids love it.

They also create fear using the myth of the devil. Even though the ‘devil’ is a 15^th century construct, barely mentioned in the New Testament, except as a minor deity under various names, they use the Lord of Hell myth to terrify the children. It’s as though some kind of beast is perpetually following them around. They also throw in the little nugget that Harry Potter should be put to death because warlocks are the enemies of God. Again, the concept of a warlock didn’t even exist before medieval times: magic was seen as a positive thing, a gift from nature until this point.

Fischer and her team of brainwashers think they are building ‘The Army of God’. This is nothing more than a cult: militant Christianity that dresses children as soldiers and trains them for the ‘War against the enemies of Jesus’. Of course the dark hand of politics is waiting in the background here. In one sequence they bring out a cardboard cut-out of George Bush. They instruct the children to bless it and talk to it as though he is a messiah. Of course, Corporate Jesus is there too, as all of this is big business, from books, DVDs and audio tapes to seminars, lectures and events.

This is the most dangerous cult I have ever seen. They are completely insane, psychotic and delusional by any standard. It isn’t a case of tolerance, this kind of thing is wrong on every level. It must be stopped. It’s a form of Religious fanaticism mixed with Nationalist politics. They want a state ruled by God, not by Democracy. Fischer even admits that she believes Democracy will fall because things can’t be equal. There are those who love Jesus and there is the enemy. Is this Christianity?

I urge everyone to watch this documentary and anyone with an inkling of decency, especially any real Christians who are decent, charitable folk, to help put a stop to this madness. Is that what we want? A future ruled by psychotic Fundamentalists? We are really are regressing as a civilisation when it comes to this.

STOP IT NOW!

…Just the Echo of a Message in a Matrix…