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Last year, I watched the documentary Jesus Camp. I did not say a whole lot the last time around. This week, I watched the documentary again, also checking the audio commentary out.
Director’s Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady found quite the picture of religion in America with their following around Becky Fischer and her children’s ministry. The movie starts off with kids dressed in fake military garb and face paint. They are singing along with a military themed Christian song in a performance for Becky’s Church (she is not the pastor, she specifically runs the children’s ministry). When Becky preaches, she tells the kids about how she knows some of them are not living right, that they are different with their friends at school than at church. She starts calling for kids to confess their sins. Young children are sobbing into the microphone about their sin like a seasoned veteran sinner.
