Jesus Camp

[footfootfoot]

Limey and Meiso both point to one of the often ignored aspects of religion today and that is those who defeated their adversaries got to expound their views and use their modus operandi to enforce their own policies. Either through implication or stated outright religious leaders would have you believe that they are doing god's work and will, it must be because we kicked the shit out of our opponents back in AD 400 or so and then we set up the council of Nicaea (sp?) to get rid of anyone who says or thinks differently than we.

Just because it's the current paradigm doesn't mean it's true or right.

What does this have to do with anything anyway? I'm gonna go back to work.

[Pangloss62]

What does this have to do with anything anyway? I'm gonna go back to work.

Well said.

[xoxoxoBruce]

WTF, I don't understand your consternation at parents teaching their children what they believe is good for them.

I know of several couples who "teach" their children about the world around them, consequences of actions, etc. Religion enters into it only as an anthropological concept: "Some people believe..." Some would say such "godless" teaching is bad and provides no moral or ethical foundation, but I disagree. I can think of a lot of things that "have been going on since the beginning of time;" that's a sorry basis for keeping them going.

Several couples? Out of how many Billion people? C'mon, parents have always done this....parents have a duty to pass knowledge to their kids. Just because you don't agree with their views doesn't make it wrong for them to teach their kids what they believe to be right. Saying that's a sorry basis for keeping them going, assumes they are wrong in what they are doing, but they don't believe they are.If they did they probably wouldn't be doing it, would they?

The only thing that film shows is parents are modern, savy, keeping up with progress, with todays trends.....outsourcing.