Dissecting stupidity: A look at an ABC News Op/Ed on "Jesus Camp"

Dan Harris

Film Shows Youths Training to Fight for Jesus

An in-your-face documentary out this weekend is raising eyebrows, raising hackles and raising questions about evangelizing to young people. 

Speaking in tongues, weeping for salvation, praying for an end to abortion and worshipping a picture of President Bush...

Worshipping a picture of George Bush?!? That pretty much flushes any claim to rationality or objectivity the author might have hoped for. That silliness leaves us knowing we are now reading Liberal, anti-Christian propaganda.

 — these are some of the activities at Pastor Becky Fischer's Bible camp in North Dakota, "Kids on Fire," subject of the provocative new documentary, "Jesus Camp." 

Important clue: Pastor Becky Fischer. The Bible is crystal clear about women as pastor's...it's not allowed. So we've got an anti-Christian bigot using an apostate "pastor" as an example of what? That's like claiming (which Liberal actually try to do) that Fred Phelps represents Christianity. 

"I want to see them as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are in Palestine, Pakistan and all those different places," Fisher said. "Because, excuse me, we have the truth."

What you'll see throughout this propaganda piece as well as the movie, is the absence of actual context for any reference to war, fighting, battles, etc. Because Christians know that those are METAPHORS commonly used to emphasize the difficulty in spreading the Gospel, not a call to violence. Does the American Cancer Society advocate violence when they call their work "The War on Cancer"?

"A lot of people die for God," one camper said, "and they're not afraid."

"We're kinda being trained to be warriors," said another, "only in a funner way."

The film has caused a split among evangelicals. Some say it's designed to demonize. Others have embraced it, including Fischer, who's helping promote the film.

Fischer, apparently, is not too bright. The film is an obvious attack on Christianity, and her participation is similar to the partnership of Bob Harrington and Madeline Murray O'Hare several decades ago. That she received 50% of the money he raised to "fight Atheism" was hidden until her son became a Christian and exposed the sham.

"I never felt at any point that I was exploited," Fischer said....

This camp is, by many accounts, a small — and perhaps extreme — slice of what some say is a growing, intensifying evangelical youth movement.

I saw little that wasn't what's been going on in churches for decades. But given that the mockumentary's producers are using Michael Moore tactics to smear Christianity, those not familiar with churches would see a different picture than what's actually happening.

Over the past decade and a half, enrollment at Christian colleges is up 70 percent. Sales of Christian music are up 300 percent. Tens of thousands of youth pastors have been trained.

He's say like it's a bad thing...

Young people are targeted through Christian music festivals, skateboard competitions and rodeos.

"This is an enormous youth movement," said Lauren Sandler, a secular, liberal feminist from New York City who spent months among the believers researching her new book, "Righteous."

A secular, Liberal feminist as a source of current Christianity? Unbelievable!

Sandler says the evangelical youth movement will have a negative impact on the country's future, because even the most moderate young evangelicals are inflexible on issues such as abortion and gay marriage.

LOL, I'll wait until you've stopped laughing...Yes, that's right, they're claiming Christians are bad because they won't compromise their morality, but absolutely no thought to Liberals possibly compromising their immorality, is there.

Posted by Danny Carlton at September 18, 2006 11:49 AM